CVE-2008-2147 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2008-2147

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC before 0.9.0 allows...

Vulnerability Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC before 0.9.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious library under the modules/ or plugins/ subdirectories of the current working directory.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

vlc
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.4.6, 0.5.0, 0.5.1, 0.5.1a, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.6.0, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.7.0, 0.7.1, 0.7.2, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.4, 0.8.4a, 0.8.5, 0.8.6a, 0.8.6b, 0.8.6c, 0.8.6d, 0.8.6e

Timeline

Official Publish: May 12th, 2008
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.