CVE-2014-9628

unknown

Published — · Modified —

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

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VIR risk

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Description

The MP4_ReadBox_String function in modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.1.6 allows remote attackers to trigger an unintended zero-size malloc and conduct buffer overflow attacks, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via a box size of 7.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9628

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.2.0~rc2-2`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.2.0~rc2-2`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.2.0~rc2-2`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.2.0~rc2-2`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.2.0~rc2-2`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9628

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.