CVE-2009-1045 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in VLC Media Player version 0.9.8a. A remote attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted request to the web interface (requests/status.xml) with an excessively long 'input' argument in an 'in_play' action, leading to stack consumption and a crash of the application. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity. It is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and requires no authentication, but only results in a denial of service (availability impact). While not listed on the CISA KEV catalog or currently active on any "Hot List," exploit code for this vulnerability is publicly available on ExploitDB. Despite this, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.9.8aCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:0.9.8a:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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