6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
9.2 High
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.02 Low
EPSS
Percentile
88.9%
VLC Media Player is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:videolan:vlc_media_player";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.802119");
script_version("2024-02-15T05:05:39+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-15 05:05:39 +0000 (Thu, 15 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2011-07-14 13:16:44 +0200 (Thu, 14 Jul 2011)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2011-1931");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_name("VLC Media Player 'AMV' Denial of Service Vulnerability - Windows");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517706");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47602");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=624339");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("secpod_vlc_media_player_detect_win.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("VLCPlayer/Win/Installed");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation could allow attackers to cause a denial
of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed AMV file.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"VLC media player version 1.1.9 and prior on Windows.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to error while handling 'sp5xdec.c' in the
Sunplus SP5X JPEG decoder in libavcodec, performs a write operation outside the
bounds of an unspecified array.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to VLC media player version 1.1.10 or later.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"VLC Media Player is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location( cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE )) exit(0);
vers = infos['version'];
path = infos['location'];
if( version_is_less_equal( version:vers, test_version:"1.1.9" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"1.1.10", install_path:path );
security_message( port:0, data:report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );