CVE-2010-2062

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-12-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer underflow in the real_get_rdt_chunk function in real.c, as used in modules/access/rtsp/real.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 1.0.1 and stream/realrtsp/real.c in MPlayer before r29447, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted length value in an RDT chunk header.

Affected products

VideoLAN VLC: through 1.0.0; 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.6.0, 0.6.1 (+32)

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dc74600c97eb834c08674676e209afa842053aca
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/04/4
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Jul/418
https://dzcore.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/dzc-2009-001-the-movie-player-and-vlc-media-player-real-data-transport-parsing-integer-underflow/
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dc74600c97eb834c08674676e209afa842053aca
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/06/04/4
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Jul/418
https://dzcore.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/dzc-2009-001-the-movie-player-and-vlc-media-player-real-data-transport-parsing-integer-underflow/

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