CVE-2011-3623

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% 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

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in VideoLAN VLC media player before 1.0.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted ASF file, related to the ASF_ObjectDumpDebug function in modules/demux/asf/libasf.c; (2) a crafted AVI file, related to the AVI_ChunkDumpDebug_level function in modules/demux/avi/libavi.c; or (3) a crafted MP4 file, related to the __MP4_BoxDumpStructure function in modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c.

Affected products

VideoLAN VLC: through 1.0.1; 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.6.0, 0.6.1 (+33)

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=861e374d03e6c60c7d3c98428c632fe3b9e371b2
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c5b02d011b8c634d041167f4d2936b55eca4d18d
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dfe7084e8cc64e9b7a87cd37065b59cba2064823
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/18/10
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0901.html
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285370
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=861e374d03e6c60c7d3c98428c632fe3b9e371b2
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c5b02d011b8c634d041167f4d2936b55eca4d18d
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dfe7084e8cc64e9b7a87cd37065b59cba2064823
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/18/10
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0901.html
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285370

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