CVE-2007-6262: Videolan Vlc Media Player

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 11.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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."

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc Media Player: version 0.8.6 only; version 0.8.6a only; version 0.8.6b only

Published 2007-12-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.