CVE-2015-5949

medium
Published 2015-08-25 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5949

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.2.1-3
debian debianbullseyefixed2.2.1-3
debian debianforkyfixed2.2.1-3
debian debiansidfixed2.2.1-3
debian debiantrixiefixed2.2.1-3

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
videolanvlc_media_player{"endIncluding":"2.2.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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