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CVE-2026-73324: Out-of-bounds Read in VideoLAN VLC media player

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Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-73324cvecve-2026-73324
Published: 09/09/2026 (09/09/2026, 13:31:59 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: VideoLAN
Product: VLC media player

Description

VLC media player copies an RTSP response line into a fixed buffer without guaranteeing termination and then treats that buffer as a C string. RtspReadLine in modules/access/rtsp/access.c calls strncpy with the full buffer length, which writes no terminator when the source line is at least as long as the destination, and rtsp_get in modules/access/rtsp/rtsp.c allocates that buffer as BUF_SIZE bytes and passes it to strdup. When a server returns a line of 4096 bytes or more, strdup measures its length past the end of the allocation and copies adjacent heap bytes until an incidental zero byte. Because the affected line is the Session header, the disclosed bytes are retained as the session identifier and sent back to the server on every subsequent request, so the operator of a hostile server reads heap memory from the client rather than inferring it. The attacker controls the line length and therefore how far the read runs. A single playlist entry naming a realrtsp URL is sufficient. The module is a build-time option, disabled in some distribution packages and enabled in the official VideoLAN builds.

CVSS v4.0

Score 6.9medium

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Active
Vuln. Confidentiality
High
Vuln. Integrity
None
Vuln. Availability
None
Subsq. Confidentiality
None
Subsq. Integrity
None
Subsq. Availability
None
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected software

GitHub Actionsmore threats →cve
VLC media player
pkg:github/VLC media player
Affected versions
>=3.0.0 <=3.0.23

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Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
VulnCheck
Date Reserved
2026-08-11T21:47:14.059Z
Cvss Version
4.0
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6aa16126acd9273b49645a63

Added to database: 09/09/2026, 13:37:42 UTC

Last updated: 09/09/2026, 13:37:42 UTC

Views: 1

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