CVE-2014-9628

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The MP4_ReadBox_String function in modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.1.6 allows remote attackers to trigger an unintended zero-size malloc and conduct buffer overflow attacks, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via a box size of 7.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-120

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jan 24, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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