Vulnerability CVE-2014-9628
Published: 2020-01-24   Modified: 2020-01-25

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.

Type:

CWE-120

 (Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow'))

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://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/20/5
https://github.com/videolan/vlc/commit/2e7c7091a61aa5d07e7997b393d821e91f593c39
https://www.videolan.org/security/sa1501.html
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