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CVE-2010-1444

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.6% 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

The ZIP archive decompressor in 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 archive.

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=08813ee6f8eb0faf83790bd4247c0a97af75a1cf
• 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=08813ee6f8eb0faf83790bd4247c0a97af75a1cf
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/28/4
• http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1003.html

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