Summary
This host is installed with VLC Media Player and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation will allow attackers to cause a denial of service conditions or potentially execute arbitrary code.
Impact Level: System/Application
Solution
No solution or patch is available as of 9th February, 2015. Information regarding this issue will be updated once the solution details are available.
For updates refer to http://www.videolan.org/vlc
Insight
The flaw exist as user-supplied input is not properly sanitized when handling a specially crafted WAV file.
Affected
VLC media player version 2.1.3 on Linux.
Detection
Get the installed version with the help of detect NVT and check the version is vulnerable or not.
References
Updated on 2017-03-28
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2014-3441 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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