CVE-2013-6283: Videolan Vlc Media Player

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VideoLAN VLC Media Player 2.0.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long string in a URL in a m3u file.

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc Media Player: up to and including 2.0.8; 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; …

Published 2013-10-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.