CVE-2016-3941

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5
Description
Buffer overflow in the AStreamPeekStream function in input/stream.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted wav file, related to "seek across EOF."
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-3941
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2016-04-18T15:59:01
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2016-11-30T03:05:52
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-119 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.1.6
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 5.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vlc/+bug/1533633 Vendor Advisory
https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-commits/2015-January/028938.html Exploit
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035456
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00045.html
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3941
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3941
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 10:03:21 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 09:03:31 2016-04-18T15:59Z 2016-04-18T15:59:01 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 09:03:31 2016-11-30T03:05:52 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 09:03:31 Modified Vulnerability Status updated