How severe is CVE-2007-6262?

The severity of CVE-2007-6262 has not been assessed with CVSS v3.

CVE-2007-6262

Name: vlc_media_player
Author: videolan

NONE

A certain ActiveX control in axvlc.dll in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6 before 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the (1) addTarget, (2) getVariable, or (3) setVari

Veröffentlicht: 12/6/2007Aktualisiert: 4/9/2025

Beschreibung

A certain ActiveX control in axvlc.dll in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6 before 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the (1) addTarget, (2) getVariable, or (3) setVariable function, resulting from a "bad initialized pointer," aka a "recursive plugin release vulnerability."