CVE-2011-0522
EPSS 66.2%Published: 2/7/2011Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The StripTags function in (1) the USF decoder (modules/codec/subtitles/subsdec.c) and (2) the Text decoder (modules/codec/subtitles/subsusf.c) in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 1.1 before 1.1.6-rc allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a subtitle with an opening "<" without a closing ">" in an MKV file, which triggers heap memory corruption, as demonstrated using refined-australia-blu720p-sample.mkv.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/vlcfrom 0, < 1.1.3-1squeeze2