CVE-2012-5855: Videolan Vlc Media Player

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The SHAddToRecentDocs function in VideoLAN VLC media player 2.0.4 and earlier might allow user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file name that triggers an incorrect string-length calculation when the file is added to VLC. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries or whether it can be exploited without user interaction.

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc Media Player: up to and including 2.0.4; version 2.0.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only

Published 2013-07-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.