cve-2008-2147
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-05-12 20:00
Modified
2024-08-07 08:49
Severity ?
Summary
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.
Impacted products
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