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Vulnerability record · CVE-2007-6262 · published 6 December 2007

CVE-2007-6262: Videolan vlc media player memory buffer overflow vulnerability

Videolan · Vlc Media Player

A certain ActiveX control in axvlc.dll in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6 before 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the (1) addTarget, (2) getVariable, or (3) setVariable function, resulting from a "bad initialized pointer," aka a "recursive plugin release vulnerability."

6.8 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 11% · top 4.2% CWE-119 · Memory buffer overflow
6.8CVSS 2.0 base score
11%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
18References, 2 tagged exploit
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

A certain ActiveX control in axvlc.dll in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6 before 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the (1) addTarget, (2) getVariable, or (3) setVariable function, resulting from a "bad initialized pointer," aka a "recursive plugin release vulnerability."

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://secunia.com/advisories/27878 Vendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3420
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484563/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26675 ExploitPatch
http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4061
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38816
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14280
http://secunia.com/advisories/27878 Vendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3420
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484563/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26675 ExploitPatch
http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4061
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38816
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14280

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2007-6262), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.