CVE-2011-3623: Videolan Vlc Media Player

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in VideoLAN VLC media player before 1.0.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted ASF file, related to the ASF_ObjectDumpDebug function in modules/demux/asf/libasf.c; (2) a crafted AVI file, related to the AVI_ChunkDumpDebug_level function in modules/demux/avi/libavi.c; or (3) a crafted MP4 file, related to the __MP4_BoxDumpStructure function in modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c.

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc Media Player: up to and including 1.0.1; 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.