VideoLAN VLC Media Player 2.1.5 - Write Access Violation

Title : VLC Player 2.1.5 Write Access Violation Vulnerability

Discoverer: Veysel HATAS (@muh4f1z)

Web page : www.binarysniper.net

Vendor : VideoLAN VLC Project

Test: Windows XP SP3

Status: Fixed

Severity : High



CVE ID : CVE-2014-9598

<http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2014-9598>

NIST: ​https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-9598

OSVDB ID : 116451 <http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/116451>

VLC Ticket : 13390 <https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/13390>



windbglog : windbglog.txt

<https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/attachment/ticket/13390/windbglog.txt>



Discovered : 24 November 2014

Reported : 26 December 2014

Published : 9 January 2015



Description : VLC Media Player contains a flaw that is triggered as

user-supplied input is not properly sanitized when handling a specially crafted

M2V file <http://www.datafilehost.com/d/11daf208>. This may allow a

context-dependent attacker to corrupt memory and potentially execute

arbitrary code.



## EDB Mirror: https://github.com/offensive-security/exploit-database-bin-sploits/raw/master/sploits/35902-poc.m2v

## EDB Mirror: https://github.com/offensive-security/exploit-database-bin-sploits/raw/master/sploits/35902-windbglog.txt