cve-2007-6262
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-12-06 02:00
Modified
2024-08-07 16:02
Severity ?
Summary
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."
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/27878Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/3420
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484563/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26675Exploit, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4061
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38816
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14280
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/27878Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3420
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484563/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26675Exploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4061
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38816
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14280
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