CVE-2023-46814

NameCVE-2023-46814
DescriptionA binary hijacking vulnerability exists within the VideoLAN VLC media player before 3.0.19 on Windows. The uninstaller attempts to execute code with elevated privileges out of a standard user writable location. Standard users may use this to gain arbitrary code execution as SYSTEM.
SourceCVE (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 PackageReleaseVersionStatus
vlc (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2.2.7-1~deb8u1fixed
stretch (security)3.0.12-0+deb9u1fixed
stretch (lts), stretch3.0.20-0+deb9u1fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)3.0.20-0+deb10u1fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye3.0.21-0+deb11u1fixed
bookworm (security), bookworm3.0.21-0+deb12u1fixed
trixie, sid3.0.21-2fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
vlcsource(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

- vlc <not-affected> (Windows-specific)
https://www.videolan.org/security/sb-vlc3019.html

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