VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-6283

high
Published 2013-10-25 · 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
8.5

Description

VideoLAN VLC Media Player 2.0.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a URL in a m3u file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-27700 dos windows verified
Asesino04 · 2013-08-19

VideoLAN VLC Media Player 2.0.8 - '.m3u' Local Crash (PoC)

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.1.0-2
sid Fixed 2.1.0-2
forky Fixed 2.1.0-2
bullseye Fixed 2.1.0-2
bookworm Fixed 2.1.0-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
videolanvlc_media_player{"endIncluding":"2.0.8"}
videolanvlc_media_player1.0.0
videolanvlc_media_player1.0.1
videolanvlc_media_player1.0.2
videolanvlc_media_player1.0.3
videolanvlc_media_player1.0.4
videolanvlc_media_player1.0.5
videolanvlc_media_player1.0.6
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.0
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.1
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.2
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.3
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.4
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.4.1
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.5
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.6
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.6.1
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.7
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.8
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.9
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.10
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.10.1
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.11
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.12
videolanvlc_media_player1.1.13
videolanvlc_media_player2.0.0
videolanvlc_media_player2.0.1
videolanvlc_media_player2.0.2
videolanvlc_media_player2.0.3
videolanvlc_media_player2.0.4
videolanvlc_media_player2.0.5
videolanvlc_media_player2.0.6
videolanvlc_media_player2.0.7

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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