The vulnerability of the CAF demultiplexer in the VideoLAN VLC media player lies in the access to an uninitialized pointer, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure and/or gain access to confidential data.

The vulnerability of the CAF media player VideoLAN VLC lies in the access to an uninitialized pointer due to a numerical overflow during the processing of cookie files in the ReadKukiChunk function. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause service failures and/or gain acces...