CVE-2012-3377

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-07-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Ogg_DecodePacket function in the OGG demuxer (modules/demux/ogg.c) in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted OGG file.

Affected products

VideoLAN VLC: through 2.0.1; 0.1.99a, 0.1.99b, 0.1.99c, 0.1.99d, 0.1.99e, 0.1.99f (+92)

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.0.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=16e9e126333fb7acb47d363366fee3deadc8331e
http://secunia.com/advisories/49835
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/06/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/06/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54345
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027224
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15299
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.0.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=16e9e126333fb7acb47d363366fee3deadc8331e
http://secunia.com/advisories/49835
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/06/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/06/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54345

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