NVD
- Id
- 7584
- Name
- CVE-2011-0522
- Description
- The StripTags function in (1) the USF decoder (modules/codec/subtitles/subsdec.c) and (2) the Text decoder (modules/codec/subtitles/subsusf.c) in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 1.1 before 1.1.6-rc allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a subtitle with an opening "<" without a closing ">" in an MKV file, which triggers heap memory corruption, as demonstrated using refined-australia-blu720p-sample.mkv.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 6.8
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS Base Score
- 6.8
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 6.4
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 8.6
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
- Pub Date
- 2017-01-07
- Published
- 2011-02-07
- Modified Date
- 2011-09-21
- Seq
- 2011-0522