CVE-2007-6683

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The browser plugin in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via (1) the :demuxdump-file option in a filename in a playlist, or (2) a EXTVLCOPT statement in an MP3 file, possibly an argument injection vulnerability.

Affected products

VideoLAN Vlc: 0.8.6d

References

http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2007-December/037726.html
http://osvdb.org/42205
http://osvdb.org/42206
http://secunia.com/advisories/29284
http://secunia.com/advisories/29766
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28712
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14619
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/23197
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1371
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2007-December/037726.html

Get alerted when CVE-2007-6683 or the next vulnerability affects your stack