CVE-2011-2588

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-07-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the AVI_ChunkRead_strf function in libavi.c in the AVI demuxer in VideoLAN VLC media player before 1.1.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted AVI media file.

Affected products

VideoLAN VLC: through 1.1.10.1; 0.1.99b, 0.1.99e, 0.1.99f, 0.1.99g, 0.1.99h, 0.1.99i (+67)

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9c14964bd11482d5c1d6c0e223440f9f1e5b1831
http://secunia.com/advisories/45066
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48664
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1106.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68532
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14858
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9c14964bd11482d5c1d6c0e223440f9f1e5b1831
http://secunia.com/advisories/45066
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48664
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1106.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68532
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14858

Get alerted when CVE-2011-2588 or the next vulnerability affects your stack