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CVE-2009-1045

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-03-23 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

requests/status.xml in VLC 0.9.8a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) via a long input argument in an in_play action.

Affected products

• VideoLAN VLC: 0.9.8a

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262708
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/17/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34126
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49249
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14357
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8213
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262708
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/17/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34126
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49249
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14357
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/8213

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