{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46461","details":"VLC media player 3.0.20 and earlier is vulnerable to denial of service through an integer overflow which could be triggered with a maliciously crafted mms stream (heap based overflow). If successful, a malicious third party could trigger either a crash of VLC or an arbitrary code execution with the target user's privileges.","modified":"2026-09-15T09:03:13.499397757Z","published":"2024-09-25T15:15:14.567Z","upstream":["CVE-2024-46461"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-46461"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"vlc","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/vlc?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.0.21-0+deb12u1"}]}],"versions":["3.0.18-2","3.0.18-3","3.0.18-4","3.0.19-1","3.0.20-0+deb12u1","3.0.20-1","3.0.20-2","3.0.20-3","3.0.20-4"],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46461.json"}},{"package":{"name":"vlc","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/vlc?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.0.21-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46461.json"}},{"package":{"name":"vlc","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/vlc?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.0.21-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-46461.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}