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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2007-6684

Medium
5/10

Summary

The RTSP module in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request without a Transport parameter, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published