CVE-2010-2937: Videolan Vlc Media Player

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ReadMetaFromId3v2 function in taglib.cpp in the TagLib plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.0 through 1.1.2 does not properly process ID3v2 tags, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted media file.

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc Media Player: version 0.9.0 only; version 0.9.1 only; version 0.9.2 only; version 0.9.3 only; version 0.9.4 only; version 0.9.5 only; …

Published 2010-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.