CVE-2013-4388

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: 2013-10-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer (modules/packetizer/mpeg4audio.c) in VideoLAN VLC Media Player before 2.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

VideoLAN VLC: through 2.0.7; 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+1)

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=9794ec1cd268c04c8bca13a5fae15df6594dff3e
http://secunia.com/advisories/59793
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/01/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62724
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029120
http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18086
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=9794ec1cd268c04c8bca13a5fae15df6594dff3e
http://secunia.com/advisories/59793
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/01/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62724
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029120

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