CVE-2014-9628
HIGH7.8EPSS 1.6%Published: 1/24/2020Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9628
Description
The MP4_ReadBox_String function in modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.1.6 allows remote attackers to trigger an unintended zero-size malloc and conduct buffer overflow attacks, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via a box size of 7.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/vlcfrom 0, < 2.2.0~rc2-2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |