CVE-2007-0017: Videolan Vlc Media Player

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 12.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in (1) the cdio_log_handler function in modules/access/cdda/access.c in the CDDA (libcdda_plugin) plugin, and the (2) cdio_log_handler and (3) vcd_log_handler functions in modules/access/vcdx/access.c in the VCDX (libvcdx_plugin) plugin, in VideoLAN VLC 0.7.0 through 0.8.6 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in an invalid URI, as demonstrated by a udp://-- URI in an M3U file.

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc Media Player: version 0.7.0 only; version 0.7.1 only; version 0.7.2 only; version 0.8.0 only; version 0.8.1 only; version 0.8.2 only; …

Published 2007-01-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.