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Vulnerability details: VCID-xvwn-dpkx-aaab
Vulnerability ID VCID-xvwn-dpkx-aaab
Aliases CVE-2015-5949
Summary VideoLAN VLC media player 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted 3GP file, which triggers the freeing of arbitrary pointers.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
System Score Found at
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generic_textual Medium https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5949
cvssv2 6.8 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5949
generic_textual Medium http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2015-009.html
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00040.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133266/VLC-2.2.1-Arbitrary-Pointer-Dereference.html
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-5949.html
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-5949
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5949
https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=ce91452460a75d7424b165c4dc8db98114c3cbd9%3Bhp=9e12195d3e4316278af1fa4bcb6a705ff27456fd
https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git;a=commitdiff;h=ce91452460a75d7424b165c4dc8db98114c3cbd9;hp=9e12195d3e4316278af1fa4bcb6a705ff27456fd
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-08
https://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2015-009.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3342
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2015-009.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536287/100/0/threaded
796255 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796255
cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2015-5949 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5949
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5949
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.88995
EPSS Score 0.0523
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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