CVE-2007-6262
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 11.1%EU EUVD
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."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 11.1% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-6230)
- Published
- December 6, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-6230 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
- videolan / vlc media player
References
- 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(Exploit, Patch)
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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