CVE-2011-2194

Vlc Media Player vulnerability

CVSS

9.3

EPSS

9.2%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

Integer overflow in the XSPF playlist parser in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.8.5 through 1.1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that trigger a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected vendor

Videolan

Affected product

Vlc Media Player

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-189

Published

2011-06-24

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 9.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2011-2194

Confirm whether Videolan Vlc Media Player is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2011-2194.
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