CVE-2007-3468

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-06-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

input.c in VideoLAN VLC Media Player before 0.8.6c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted WAV file that causes an uninitialized i_nb_resamplers variable to be used.

Affected products

VideoLAN VLC: through 0.8.6b

References

http://osvdb.org/38992
http://secunia.com/advisories/25980
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1332
http://www.isecpartners.com/advisories/2007-001-vlc.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471933/100/0/threaded
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14744
http://osvdb.org/38992
http://secunia.com/advisories/25980
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1332
http://www.isecpartners.com/advisories/2007-001-vlc.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471933/100/0/threaded
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14744

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