CVE-2016-3941

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3941
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3941.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-3941
Downstream
Published
2016-04-18T15:59:01.190Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:48:13.389164400Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Buffer overflow in the AStreamPeekStream function in input/stream.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted wav file, related to "seek across EOF."

Database specific
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.1.6"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "videolan:vlc_media_player",
            "source": "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                }
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/videolan/vlc-3.0

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/videolan/vlc-3.0
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Database specific
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.2.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": "DESCRIPTION"
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.9.0
0.9.0-test0
0.9.0-test1
0.9.0-test2
0.9.0-test3
1.*
1.0.0-pre1
1.0.0-pre2
1.0.0-rc1
1.1.0-ff
1.1.0-pre1
1.2.0-pre1
1.3.0-git
2.*
2.1.0-git
Other
svn-trunk

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3941.json"