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CVE-2020-26664

Date: January 8, 2021

A vulnerability in EbmlTypeDispatcher::send in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.11 allows attackers to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted .mkv file.

Severity Score

7.8

Related Resources (11)

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-37

Url: http://videolan.com

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00012.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26664

Url: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/henices/db11664dd45b9f322f8514d182aef5ea/raw/d56940c8bf211992bf4f3309a85bb2b69383e511/CVE-2020-26664.txt

Url: http://vlc.com

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-26664

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-26664

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4834

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-26664

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-26664

Severity Score

7.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.8
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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