Videolan vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.

Vendor
The short answer

Videolan has 127 published vulnerabilities across 5 products in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Vlc Media Player, with 113. If you run Videolan software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Products

Which Videolan products have the most vulnerabilities?

Vlc Media Player leads with 113 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

  1. Vlc Media Player113
  2. Vlc10
  3. Dav1d2
  4. Libbluray1
  5. Vlc for Mobile1
Published vulnerabilities
Known exploited

Which Videolan vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Videolan's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Videolan flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 76%

    libdirectx_plugin.dll in VideoLAN VLC Media Player before 1.1.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted width in an AMV file, related to a "dangling pointer vulnerability."

    CVSS9.3Published28 Mar 2011
  2. 58%

    Stack-based buffer overflow in the parse_master function in the Ty demux plugin (modules/demux/ty.c) in VLC Media Player 0.9.0 through 0.9.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a TiVo TY media file...

    CVSS9.3Published22 Oct 2008
  3. 52%

    The StripTags function in (1) the USF decoder (modules/codec/subtitles/subsdec.c) and (2) the Text decoder (modules/codec/subtitles/subsusf.c) in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 1.1 before 1.1.6-rc allows remote attackers...

    CVSS6.8Published7 Feb 2011
  4. 44%

    Stack-based buffer overflow in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.0.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted MMS:// stream.

    CVSS9.3Published19 Mar 2012
  5. 42%

    demux/mkv/mkv.hpp in the MKV demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 1.1.6.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary commands via a crafted MKV (WebM or...

    CVSS9.3Published7 Feb 2011
  6. 41%

    Stack-based buffer overflow in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.x before 0.9.6 might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an an invalid RealText (rt) subtitle file, related to the ParseRealText...

    CVSS9.3Published10 Nov 2008
  7. 37%

    VideoLAN VLC media player 2.2.x is prone to a use after free vulnerability which an attacker can leverage to execute arbitrary code via crafted MKV files.

    CVSS8.0Published11 Jul 2018
  8. 35%

    Stack-based buffer overflow in the Win32AddConnection function in modules/access/smb.c in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.9, when running on Microsoft Windows, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service...

    CVSS9.3Published16 Jul 2009
  9. 28%

    The parseRTSPRequestString function in Live Networks Live555 Streaming Media 2013.11.26, as used in VideoLAN VLC Media Player, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute...

    CVSS7.5Published23 Jan 2014
  10. 25%

    Buffer overflow in the DecodeAdpcmImaQT function in modules/codec/adpcm.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via...

    CVSS9.8Published8 Jun 2016
Every product

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5 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.

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Our catalogue lists 127 published vulnerabilities across 5 products and 292 versions from Videolan.

None of Videolan's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

Vlc Media Player, with 113 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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