CVE-2015-5949 (GCVE-0-2015-5949)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-08-25 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:06
VLAI?
Summary
VideoLAN VLC media player 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted 3GP file, which triggers the freeing of arbitrary pointers.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public ?
2015-08-03 00:00
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