CVE-2010-1443: Videolan Vlc Media Player

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The parse_track_node function in modules/demux/playlist/xspf.c in the XSPF playlist parser in VideoLAN VLC media player before 1.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an empty location element in an XML Shareable Playlist Format (XSPF) document.

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.