CVE-2010-3124

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 12.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-08-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in bin/winvlc.c in VLC Media Player 1.1.3 and earlier allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse wintab32.dll that is located in the same folder as a .mp3 file.

Affected products

VideoLAN VLC: through 1.1.3; 0.1.99b, 0.1.99e, 0.1.99f, 0.1.99g, 0.1.99h, 0.1.99i (+58)

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-1.1.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3Bf=bin/winvlc.c%3Bh=ac9b97ca9f5f9ba001f13bf61eb5127a1c1dbcbf%3Bhp=2d09cba320e3b0def7069ce1ebab25d1340161c5%3Bhb=43a31df56c37bd62c691cdbe3c1f11babd164b56%3Bhpb=2d366da738b19f8d761d7084746c6db6f52808c6
http://secunia.com/advisories/41107
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14750
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/25/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/25/9
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2172
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12190
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-1.1.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3Bf=bin/winvlc.c%3Bh=ac9b97ca9f5f9ba001f13bf61eb5127a1c1dbcbf%3Bhp=2d09cba320e3b0def7069ce1ebab25d1340161c5%3Bhb=43a31df56c37bd62c691cdbe3c1f11babd164b56%3Bhpb=2d366da738b19f8d761d7084746c6db6f52808c6
http://secunia.com/advisories/41107
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14750
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/25/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/08/25/9

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