CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-2147
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-05-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC before 0.9.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious library under the modules/ or plugins/ subdirectories of the current working directory.
Affected configurations
• videolan vlc (<= 0.8.6)
• videolan vlc 0.4.6
• videolan vlc 0.5.0
• videolan vlc 0.5.1
• videolan vlc 0.5.1a
• videolan vlc 0.5.2
• videolan vlc 0.5.3
• videolan vlc 0.6.0
• videolan vlc 0.6.1
• videolan vlc 0.6.2
• videolan vlc 0.7.0
• videolan vlc 0.7.1
• videolan vlc 0.7.2
• videolan vlc 0.8.0
• videolan vlc 0.8.1
• videolan vlc 0.8.2
• videolan vlc 0.8.4
• videolan vlc 0.8.4a
• videolan vlc 0.8.5
• videolan vlc 0.8.6a
• videolan vlc 0.8.6b
• videolan vlc 0.8.6c
• videolan vlc 0.8.6d
• videolan vlc 0.8.6e
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c7cef4fdd8dd72ce0a45be3cda8ba98df5e83181 git.videolan.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31317 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1578 trac.videolan.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42377 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c7cef4fdd8dd72ce0a45be3cda8ba98df5e83181 git.videolan.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31317 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1578 trac.videolan.org
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42377 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com