CVE-2010-1442: Videolan Vlc Media Player

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VideoLAN VLC media player before 1.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted byte stream to the (1) AVI, (2) ASF, or (3) Matroska (aka MKV) demuxer.

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc Media Player: up to and including 1.0.5; version 0.5.0 only; version 0.5.1 only; version 0.5.2 only; version 0.5.3 only; version 0.6.0 only; …

Published 2014-12-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.