CVE-2011-1684: Videolan Vlc Media Player

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the MP4_ReadBox_skcr function in libmp4.c in the MP4 demultiplexer in VideoLAN VLC media player 1.x before 1.1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted MP4 file.

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc Media Player: version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.5 only; …

Published 2011-05-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.