VDB
GHSA-mxxw-w2hq-pvjj
GHSA-mxxw-w2hq-pvjj
PUBLISHED
CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 1, 2022
VLC before 0.8.6f allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted Cinepak file that triggers an out-of-bounds array access and memory corruption.
Risk scores
CVSS 4.0
9.300000190734863
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Timeline
- May 1, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory
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vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-mxxw-w2hq-pvjj
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-mxxw-w2hq-pvjj
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"https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-mxxw-w2hq-pvjj/fixes/registry"
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References
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0985 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1769 advisory
- http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=cf489d7bff3c1b36b2d5501ecf21129c78104d98 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29503 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29800 url
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28904 url
- http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0803.php url
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14445 url
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214627#c3 url
- http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit%3Bh=cf489d7bff3c1b36b2d5501ecf21129c78104d98 url
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-25.xml url
- http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6f url
- http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS url