CVE-2007-6262

Name	CVE-2007-6262
Description	A certain ActiveX control in axvlc.dll in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6 before 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments to the (1) addTarget, (2) getVariable, or (3) setVariable function, resulting from a "bad initialized pointer," aka a "recursive plugin release vulnerability."
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
vlc (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	2.2.7-1~deb8u1	fixed
	stretch (security)	3.0.12-0+deb9u1	fixed
	stretch (lts), stretch	3.0.20-0+deb9u1	fixed
	buster	3.0.17.4-0+deb10u1	fixed
	buster (security)	3.0.20-0+deb10u1	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	3.0.20-0+deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm (security), bookworm	3.0.20-0+deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	3.0.20-4	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
vlc	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- vlc <not-affected> (Windows only issue)