National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-6262

Overview

A certain ActiveX control in axvlc.dll in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6 before 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the (1) addTarget, (2) getVariable, or (3) setVariable function, resulting from a "bad initialized pointer," aka a "recursive plugin release vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: BID

Name: 26675

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26675

External Source: XF

Name: vlcmediaplayer-activex-memory-overwrite(38816)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38816

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-4061

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4061

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html

Hyperlink:http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20071204 CORE-2007-1004: VLC Activex Bad Pointer Initialization Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/484563/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035

Hyperlink:http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27878

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27878

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14280

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14280

External Source: SREASON

Name: 3420

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3420

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14280

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14280