CVE-2010-1442

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-12-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

VideoLAN VLC media player before 1.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted byte stream to the (1) AVI, (2) ASF, or (3) Matroska (aka MKV) demuxer.

Affected products

VideoLAN VLC: through 1.0.5; 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.6.0, 0.6.1 (+37)

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/28/4
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1003.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/28/4
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1003.html

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