CVE-2007-6681

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 17.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in modules/demux/subtitle.c in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long subtitle in a (1) MicroDvd, (2) SSA, and (3) Vplayer file.

Affected products

VideoLAN Vlc: through 0.8.6d

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2007-June/032672.html
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2007-June/033394.html
http://osvdb.org/42207
http://secunia.com/advisories/28233
http://secunia.com/advisories/29284
http://secunia.com/advisories/29766
http://secunia.com/advisories/29800
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-25.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3550
http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6f
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543

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