CVE-2014-9629: Videolan Vlc Media Player

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the Encode function in modules/codec/schroedinger.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.1.6 and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to conduct buffer overflow attacks and execute arbitrary code via a crafted length value.

Affected products

• Videolan Vlc Media Player: before 2.1.6 (fixed in 2.1.6); from 2.2.0, before 2.2.1 (fixed in 2.2.1)

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