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CVE-2011-0531

demux/mkv/mkv.hpp in the MKV demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 1.1.6.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary commands via a crafted MKV (WebM or Matroska) file that triggers memory corruption, related to "class mismatching" and the MKV_IS_ID macro.

Published:Feb 7, 2011

Last Modified:Apr 11, 2025

EPS:Feb 7, 2011

EPSS Score:0.73766

CVSS Score:9.3

Affected Products

Vendor

Product

Action

Vendor

Videolan

Product

Vlc Media Player

Videolan

Vlc Media Player

Exploits

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16637

Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables

CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection

CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting

CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection

CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection

CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering

CAPEC-120 Double Encoding

CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values

CAPEC-135 Format String Injection

CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection

CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow

CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation

CAPEC-182 Flash Injection

CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch

CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client

CAPEC-23 File Content Injection

CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads

CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads

CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow

CAPEC-250 XML Injection

CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data

CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding

CAPEC-28 Fuzzing

CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters

CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies

CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion

CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers

CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links

CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags

CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion

CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof

CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes

CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash

CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS

CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic

CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery

CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()

CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection

CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic

CAPEC-72 URL Encoding

CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename

CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding

CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding

CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call

CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic

CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering

CAPEC-83 XPath Injection

CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting

CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection

CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

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CVE-2025-51602 (CVSS 4.8) — mmstu.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 3.0.22 allows an out-of-bounds read and denial of service via a cr…

CVE-2024-46461 (CVSS 8) — VLC media player 3.0.20 and earlier is vulnerable to denial of service through an integer overflow which could…

CVE-2023-46814 (CVSS 7.8) — A binary hijacking vulnerability exists within the VideoLAN VLC media player before 3.0.19 on Windows. The uni…

CVE-2023-47359 (CVSS 9.8) — Videolan VLC prior to version 3.0.20 contains an incorrect offset read that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overf…

CVE-2023-47360 (CVSS 7.5) — Videolan VLC prior to version 3.0.20 contains an Integer underflow that leads to an incorrect packet length.…

CVE-2022-41325 (CVSS 7.8) — An integer overflow in the VNC module in VideoLAN VLC Media Player through 3.0.17.4 allows attackers, by trick…

CVE-2021-25804 (CVSS 7.5) — A NULL-pointer dereference in "Open" in avi.c of VideoLAN VLC Media Player 3.0.11 can a denial of service (DOS…

CVE-2021-25803 (CVSS 7.1) — A buffer overflow vulnerability in the vlc_input_attachment_New component of VideoLAN VLC Media Player 3.0.11 …

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=59491dcedffbf97612d2c572943b56ee4289dd07

http://osvdb.org/70698

http://secunia.com/advisories/43131

http://secunia.com/advisories/43242

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2159

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/31/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/31/8

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46060

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025018

http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1102.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0363

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65045

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12415

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=59491dcedffbf97612d2c572943b56ee4289dd07

http://osvdb.org/70698

http://secunia.com/advisories/43131

http://secunia.com/advisories/43242

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2159

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/31/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/31/8

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46060

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025018

http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1102.html

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0363

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65045

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12415

Common Vulnerability Scoring System

Attack Vector

Network

Adjacent

Local

Physical

Privileges Required

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High

User Interaction

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Confidentiality

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Low

High

Integrity

None

Low

High

Availability

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Low

High