CVE-2007-6262

Description

A certain ActiveX control in axvlc.dll in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6 before 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the (1) addTarget, (2) getVariable, or (3) setVariable function, resulting from a bad initialized pointer, aka a recursive plugin release vulnerability.

Risk Information

Base Score
8.8
MODERATE
Vector
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
22.802

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Update VLC Media Player 0.8.6d to latest versionWindows
Update VLC Media Player 0.8.6d (x64) to latest versionWindows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in VLC Media Player (MSI) (x64) 0.8.6Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in VLC media player (MSI) 0.8.6Windows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in VLC Media Player (MSI) (x64) 0.8.6aWindows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in VLC media player (MSI) 0.8.6aWindows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in VLC Media Player (MSI) (x64) 0.8.6bWindows
Multiple Vulnerabilities are affected in VLC media player (MSI) 0.8.6bWindows

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-339134VLC Media Player (3.0.21)
PATCH-339135VLC Media Player (X64) (3.0.21)
PATCH-334048VLC media player (MSI) (x64) (3.0.20.0)
PATCH-334050VLC media player (MSI) (3.0.20.0)
PATCH-334048VLC media player (MSI) (x64) (3.0.20.0)
PATCH-334050VLC media player (MSI) (3.0.20.0)
PATCH-334048VLC media player (MSI) (x64) (3.0.20.0)
PATCH-334050VLC media player (MSI) (3.0.20.0)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234