CVE-2016-3941 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC media player versions prior to 2.2.0, specifically within the AStreamPeekStream function, affecting Canonical and VideoLAN distributions. This flaw allows a remote attacker to trigger a denial of service by providing a specially crafted WAV file, related to seeking across the end-of-file marker. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 5.5), it requires user interaction (UI:R) to open the malicious file, with a local attack vector (AV:L) and low attack complexity (AC:L), leading to high availability impact (A:H) but no confidentiality or integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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