Vulnerability CVE-2009-1045
Published: 2009-03-23   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
requests/status.xml in VLC 0.9.8a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and crash) via a long input argument in an in_play action.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
VLC 0.9.8a Web UI (input) Remote Denial of Service Exploit
Anon
26.03.2009

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Videolan -> Vlc media player 

 References:
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/49249
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34126
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/17/4
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8213
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14357
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262708
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