CVE-2013-3245

Publication date 10 July 2013

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

plugins/demux/libmkv_plugin.dll in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 2.0.7, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted MKV file, possibly involving an integer overflow and out-of-bounds read or heap-based buffer overflow, or an uncaught exception. NOTE: the vendor disputes the severity and claimed vulnerability type of this issue, stating “This PoC crashes VLC, indeed, but does nothing more... this is not an integer overflow error, but an uncaught exception and I doubt that it is exploitable. This uncaught exception makes VLC abort, not execute random code, on my Linux 64bits machine.” A PoC posted by the original researcher shows signs of an attacker-controlled out-of-bounds read, but the affected instruction does not involve a register that directly influences control flow

Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
vlc 13.10 saucy
Fixed 2.0.8-1
13.04 raring
Fixed 2.0.8-0ubuntu0.13.04.1
12.10 quantal
Fixed 2.0.8-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 2.0.8-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.3 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L