CVE-2011-0531

50Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 42%

from disclosure to weapon1 days

Published on NVDFeb 7

1st PoC+1d

metasploitJan 31

exploitation probability

42%top 1% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

demux/mkv/mkv.hpp in the MKV demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 1.1.6.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary commands via a crafted MKV (WebM or Matroska) file that triggers memory corruption, related to "class mismatching" and the MKV_IS_ID macro.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/16637unverified

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References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=59491dcedffbf97612d2c572943b56ee4289dd07 http://osvdb.org/70698 http://secunia.com/advisories/43131 http://secunia.com/advisories/43242 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65045 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12415 http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2159 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/31/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/31/8 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46060 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025018 http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1102.html