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CVE-2021-25804

Published: 26 July 2021

A NULL-pointer dereference in "Open" in avi.c of VideoLAN VLC Media Player 3.0.11 can a denial of service (DOS) in the application.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
vlc Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Needs triage
	hirsute	Not vulnerable (3.0.12-3)
	impish	Not vulnerable
	jammy	Not vulnerable
	kinetic	Not vulnerable
	trusty	Needs triage
	upstream	Released (3.0.12-1)
	xenial	Needs triage

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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