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CVE-2007-6262

medium · 6.8

A certain ActiveX control in axvlc.dll in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6 before 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the (1) addTarget, (2) getVariable, or (3) setVariable function, resulting from a "bad initialized pointer," aka a "recursive plugin release vulnerability."

6.8
CVSS
11.1%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
96th
EPSS percentile
2007-12-06
Published

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
videolanvlc_media_player0.8.6
videolanvlc_media_player0.8.6a
videolanvlc_media_player0.8.6b

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References

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