CVE-2009-2484

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 35.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-07-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Win32AddConnection function in modules/access/smb.c in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.9, when running on Microsoft Windows, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long smb URI in a playlist file.

Affected products

VideoLAN VLC: 0.9.9

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e60a9038b13b5eb805a76755efc5c6d5e080180f
http://secunia.com/advisories/35558
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9029
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35500
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1714
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14800
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e60a9038b13b5eb805a76755efc5c6d5e080180f
http://secunia.com/advisories/35558
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9029
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35500
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1714
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14800

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