CVE-2013-3245
** DISPUTED ** plugins/demux/libmkv_plugin.dll in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 2.0.7, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted MKV file, possibly involving an integer overflow and out-of-bounds read or heap-based buffer overflow, or an uncaught exception. NOTE: the vendor disputes the severity and claimed vulnerability type of this issue, stating "This PoC crashes VLC, indeed, but does nothing more... this is not an integer overflow error, but an uncaught exception and I doubt that it is exploitable. This uncaught exception makes VLC abort, not execute random code, on my Linux 64bits machine." A PoC posted by the original researcher shows signs of an attacker-controlled out-of-bounds read, but the affected instruction does not involve a register that directly influences control flow.
EPSS 2.89% · 86.8th percentile
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| videolan | vlc_media_player | 2.0.7 |
| n/a | n/a | * |
Timeline
- Jul 10, 2013 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 13, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Oct 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 11, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 4, 2023 EPSS Score
- Jul 19, 2023 EPSS Score
- Sep 10, 2023 EPSS Score
- Nov 2, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2013/More-lies-from-Secunia url
- 20130710 VLC media player MKV Parsing POC mailing-list
- 52956 third-party-advisory
- http://secunia.com/blog/372/ url
- 61032 vdb
- 20130710 Re: VLC media player MKV Parsing POC mailing-list
- 20130710 Re: VLC media player MKV Parsing POC mailing-list
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-3245 advisory
- http://secunia.com/blog/372 url