Vulnerability CVE-2014-9597
Published: 2015-01-21   Modified: 2015-01-22

Description:
The picture_pool_Delete function in misc/picture_pool.c in VideoLAN VLC media player 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (DEP violation and application crash) via a crafted FLV file.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
VLC Player 2.1.5 Write Access / DEP Access Violation
Veysel HATAS
20.01.2015

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Videolan -> Vlc media player 

 References:
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/72
http://www.binarysniper.net/2015/01/vlc-media-player-215-memory-corruption.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-08
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/attachment/ticket/13389/windbglog.txt
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/13389
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