{"id":"CVE-2015-5949","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2015-5949","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T05:57:17.940Z","title":"VideoLAN VLC media player 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted 3GP file, which triggers the freeing of arbitrary pointers.","description":"VideoLAN VLC media player 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted 3GP file, which triggers the freeing of arbitrary pointers.","published":"2015-08-25T17:59:05.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:30:10.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":6.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-119"],"affected":["videolan/vlc media player"],"epss":{"score":0.13337,"percentile":0.96417,"date":"2026-11-04","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 13.3%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00040.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133266/VLC-2.2.1-Arbitrary-Pointer-Dereference.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3342","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/3","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/8","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536287/100/0/threaded","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=ce91452460a75d7424b165c4dc8db98114c3cbd9%3Bhp=9e12195d3e4316278af1fa4bcb6a705ff27456fd","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-08","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2015-009.html","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00040.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133266/VLC-2.2.1-Arbitrary-Pointer-Dereference.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3342","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/3","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/8","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536287/100/0/threaded","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=ce91452460a75d7424b165c4dc8db98114c3cbd9%3Bhp=9e12195d3e4316278af1fa4bcb6a705ff27456fd","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-08","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2015-009.html","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5949","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}