CVE-2010-1443

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-12-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The parse_track_node function in modules/demux/playlist/xspf.c in the XSPF playlist parser in VideoLAN VLC media player before 1.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an empty location element in an XML Shareable Playlist Format (XSPF) document.

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://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-1.1.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8902488ba529c0cf4c903a8a84ff20b5737cc753
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/28/4
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1003.html
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-1.1.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8902488ba529c0cf4c903a8a84ff20b5737cc753
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/28/4
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1003.html

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