CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-13428
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-06-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
A heap-based buffer overflow in the hxxx_AnnexB_to_xVC function in modules/packetizer/hxxx_nal.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 3.0.11 for macOS/iOS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted H.264 Annex-B video (.avi for example) file.
Affected configurations
• videolan vlc media player (< 3.0.11)
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-3.0.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d5c43c21c747ff30ed19fcca745dea3481c733e0 git.videolan.org
- https://github.com/videolan/vlc-3.0/releases/tag/3.0.11 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/videolan/vlc/commits/master/modules/packetizer/hxxx_nal.c Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4704 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.videolan.org/security/sb-vlc3011.html Vendor Advisory
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-3.0.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d5c43c21c747ff30ed19fcca745dea3481c733e0 git.videolan.org
- https://github.com/videolan/vlc-3.0/releases/tag/3.0.11 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/videolan/vlc/commits/master/modules/packetizer/hxxx_nal.c Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4704 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.videolan.org/security/sb-vlc3011.html Vendor Advisory