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VLC < 2.1.4 DoS

medium Nessus Plugin ID 137358

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Synopsis

The remote Windows host contains a media player that is affected by denial of service vulnerability.

Description

A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability exists in VLC media player. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue, by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted .png file, to cause the application to stop responding.

Solution

Upgrade to VLC version 2.1.4 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?fba8d459

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 137358

File Name: vlc_2_1_4.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 6/11/2020

Updated: 8/14/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3441

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:videolan:vlc_media_player

Required KB Items: SMB/VLC/Version, installed_sw/VLC media player

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3441

BID: 67315