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CVE-2015-5949

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5949 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC media player version 2.2.1, where a specially crafted 3GP file can cause a crash and potentially lead to arbitrary code execution by freeing arbitrary pointers. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.8, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with medium attack complexity, potentially impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit or Nuclei, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
13.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1334 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00040.html
packetstormsecurity.com / files/133266/VLC-2.2.1-Arbitrary-Pointer-Dereference.html
git.videolan.org
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201603-08
ocert.org / advisories/ocert-2015-009.html
US Government Resource
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3342
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/3
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/8
securityfocus.com / archive/1/536287/100/0/threaded