CVE-2014-6440 — Vulnetix

CVE-2014-6440 PUBLISHED

VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.

EPSS 6.70% · 91.4th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

6.70%

91.4th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	vlc	2.0.8-1, 2.1.1-1, 2.1.2-1

Exploit Intelligence

http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS (circl)
72950 (circl)
GLSA-201603-08 (circl)
[oss-security] 20150304 CVE-2014-6440: Heap Overflow in VLC Transcode Module (circl)
http://billblough.net/blog/2015/03/04/cve-2014-6440-heap-overflow-in-vlc-transcode-module/ (vulncheck-nvd)

Timeline

Mar 28, 2017 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
Sep 3, 2022 EPSS Score
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Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
Feb 8, 2023 EPSS Score
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Jul 16, 2023 EPSS Score
Sep 7, 2023 EPSS Score

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-6440 third-party-advisory
https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=142553869106649&w=2 third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-6440 third-party-advisory

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