CVE-2008-2147

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Source

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2147

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2008-2147.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2008-2147

Downstream

DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2147

DSA-1819-1

DTSA-132-1

Published

2008-05-12T20:20:00Z

Modified

2025-08-09T20:01:27Z

Summary

[none]

Details

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.

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/31317
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c7cef4fdd8dd72ce0a45be3cda8ba98df5e83181
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1578
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42377

CVE-2008-2147

Affected packages