CVE-2010-3907

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Multiple integer overflows in real.c in the Real demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC Media Player before 1.1.6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a zero i_subpackets value in a Real Media file, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

VideoLAN VLC: through 1.1.5; 0.1.99b, 0.1.99e, 0.1.99f, 0.1.99g, 0.1.99h, 0.1.99i (+60)

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6568965770f906d34d4aef83237842a5376adb55
http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/drosenbe/research.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45632
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1007.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3345
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64461
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13950
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6568965770f906d34d4aef83237842a5376adb55
http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/drosenbe/research.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45632
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1007.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3345

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