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UBUNTU-CVE-2012-5855

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2013-07-10 19:55 – Updated: 2013-07-10 19:55 – Source website

Withdrawn 2025-06-23

Details

The SHAddToRecentDocs function in VideoLAN VLC media player 2.0.4 and earlier might allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file name that triggers an incorrect string-length calculation when the file is added to VLC. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries or whether it can be exploited without user interaction.

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-5855	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/12	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-5855	REPORT

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CVE-2012-5855 (GCVE-0-2012-5855)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-07-10 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:21

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2298 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/524626	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def…	vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=135274330022215&w=2	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Date Public

2012-11-05 00:00

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