CVE-2007-6262 (GCVE-0-2007-6262)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-12-06 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 16:02
VLAI
Summary
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."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4061 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035 x_refsource_MISC
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://secunia.com/advisories/27878 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484563/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26675 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3420 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
Date Public
2007-11-30 00:00
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