CVE-2013-1954

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-07-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The ASF Demuxer (modules/demux/asf/asf.c) in VideoLAN VLC media player 2.0.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ASF movie that triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

VideoLAN VLC: through 2.0.5; 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=b31ce523331aa3a6e620b68cdfe3f161d519631e
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=136593191416152&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=136610343501731&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/59793
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/8024
http://www.osvdb.org/89598
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57333
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1302.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17023
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=b31ce523331aa3a6e620b68cdfe3f161d519631e
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=136593191416152&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=136610343501731&w=2

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