CVE-2024-46461

high

Description

VLC media player 3.0.20 and earlier is vulnerable to denial of service through an integer overflow which could be triggered with a maliciously crafted mms stream (heap based overflow). If successful, a malicious third party could trigger either a crash of VLC or an arbitrary code execution with the target user's privileges.

References

https://securityonline.info/vlc-media-player-update-needed-cve-2024-46461-discovered/?&web_view=true

https://www.videolan.org/security/sb-vlc3021.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-09-25

Updated: 2024-09-26

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High