Vulnerability CVE-2013-6283
Published: 2013-10-25   Modified: 2013-10-27

Description:
VideoLAN VLC Media Player 2.0.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a URL in a m3u file.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
VLC Player 2.0.8 <= Local Crash PoC
The Black Devils
20.08.2013

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Videolan -> Vlc media player 

 References:
http://www.osvdb.org/96603
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27700
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