CVE - CVE-2007-6262

CVE-ID
CVE-2007-6262	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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."
References
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BID:26675 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26675 BUGTRAQ:20071204 CORE-2007-1004: VLC Activex Bad Pointer Initialization Vulnerability URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484563/100/0/threaded CONFIRM:http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html MISC:http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035 OVAL:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14280 URL:https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14280 SECUNIA:27878 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/27878 SREASON:3420 URL:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3420 VUPEN:ADV-2007-4061 URL:~~http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4061~~ (Obsolete source) XF:vlcmediaplayer-activex-memory-overwrite(38816) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38816
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20071205	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20071205)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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