CVE-2007-6262

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-12-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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."

Affected products

VideoLAN VLC: 0.8.6, 0.8.6a, 0.8.6b

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/27878
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3420
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484563/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26675
http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4061
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38816
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14280
http://secunia.com/advisories/27878
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3420
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035

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