CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-26664
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-01-08
- Last modified
- 2026-10-08
- 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 vulnerability in EbmlTypeDispatcher::send in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.11 allows attackers to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted .mkv file.
Affected configurations
• videolan vlc media player (< 3.0.12)
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://gist.githubusercontent.com/henices/db11664dd45b9f322f8514d182aef5ea/raw/d56940c8bf211992bf4f3309a85bb2b69383e511/CVE-2020-26664.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00012.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-37 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4834 Third Party Advisory
- https://gist.githubusercontent.com/henices/db11664dd45b9f322f8514d182aef5ea/raw/d56940c8bf211992bf4f3309a85bb2b69383e511/CVE-2020-26664.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00012.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-37 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4834 Third Party Advisory