CVE-2016-3941

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the AStreamPeekStream function in input/stream.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted wav file, related to "seek across EOF."

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04
VideoLAN VLC: through 2.1.6

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00045.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035456
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1533633
https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-commits/2015-January/028938.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00045.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035456
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1533633
https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-commits/2015-January/028938.html

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