CVE-2014-9628: Videolan Vlc Media Player

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The MP4_ReadBox_String function in modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.1.6 allows remote attackers to trigger an unintended zero-size malloc and conduct buffer overflow attacks, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via a box size of 7.

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc Media Player: before 2.1.6 (fixed in 2.1.6)

Published 2020-01-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.