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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2007-6262 json

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 ar…

published 2007-12-06 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-6230

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.1%
EPSS 11.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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."

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-4688)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

11.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-4688 VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.86 < 0.86d - ActiveX Remote Bad Pointer Initialization dos, 2007-12-04
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26675 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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.