CVE-2008-2147

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC before 0.9.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious library under the modules/ or plugins/ subdirectories of the current working directory.

CVSS Metrics

• v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.08%• Percentile: 23%

Techniques & Countermeasures

• CWE-264•Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

  Weaknesses in this category are related to the management of permissions, privileges, and other security features that are used to perform access control.

Affected Systems

• videolan•vlc

  ≤ 0.8.6 | 0.4.6 | 0.5.0 | 0.5.1 | 0.5.1a | 0.5.2 | 0.5.3 | 0.6.0 | 0.6.1 | 0.6.2 | 0.7.0 | 0.7.1 | 0.7.2 | 0.8.0 | 0.8.1 | 0.8.2 | 0.8.4 | 0.8.4a | 0.8.5 | 0.8.6a | 0.8.6b | 0.8.6c | 0.8.6d | 0.8.6e

References (5)

• http://secunia.com/advisories/31317
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42377
• http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c7cef4fdd8dd72ce0a45be3cda8ba98df5e83181
• http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1578
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml