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CVE-2012-3377
Heap-based buffer overflow in the Ogg_DecodePacket function in the OGG demuxer (modules/demux/ogg.c) in VideoLAN VLC media player before…
Medium6.8EPSS 3.8%
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- Updated
- Reserved
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- redhat
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the Ogg_DecodePacket function in the OGG demuxer (modules/demux/ogg.c) in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted OGG file.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.8% · top 10.0% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- [oss-security] 20120706 Re: CVE request: VLC / Asterisk (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 1027224 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15299 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 49835 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 54345 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20120706 CVE request: VLC / Asterisk (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.0.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=16e9e126333fb7acb47d363366fee3deadc8331e (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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