CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-13428
High (7.8). EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A heap-based buffer overflow in the hxxx_AnnexB_to_xVC function in modules/packetizer/hxxx_nal.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 3.0.11 for macOS/iOS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted H.264 Annex-B video (.avi for example) file.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- videolan:vlc_media_player
References
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-3.0.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d5c43c21c747ff30ed19fcca745dea3481c733e0
- https://github.com/videolan/vlc-3.0/releases/tag/3.0.11
- https://github.com/videolan/vlc/commits/master/modules/packetizer/hxxx_nal.c
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4704
- https://www.videolan.org/security/sb-vlc3011.html