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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2023-47359 json

Videolan VLC prior to version 3.0.20 contains an incorrect offset read that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function GetPacket() a…

published 2023-11-07 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-51476

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Videolan VLC prior to version 3.0.20 contains an incorrect offset read that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function GetPacket() and results in a memory corruption.

Patch / fix

  • videolan vlc_media_player 3.0.20
  • vlc Debian 12 3.0.20-0+deb12u1
  • vlc Debian 14, Debian 13 3.0.20-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-47359

  • vlc Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.2.2-5ubuntu0.16.04.5+esm3
  • vlc Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1+esm2
  • vlc Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 3.0.9.2-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
  • vlc Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 3.0.16-1ubuntu0.1~esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-47359

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-26-146-05 updated cvss 9.8

ABB Ability Camera Connect

  • ABB Ability Camera Connect <= 1.5.0.14
    affected: vendor fix, mitigation
  • ABB Ability Camera Connect 1.5.0.15
    fixed

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • 0xariana.github.io https://0xariana.github.io/blog/real_bugs/vlc/mms referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.