CVE-2016-3941 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-3941?

CVE-2016-3941 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 18 Apr 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Buffer overflow in the AStreamPeekStream function in input/stream.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted wav file, related to "seek across EOF."

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-3941?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Videolan Vlc Media Player.

How do I fix CVE-2016-3941?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-3941 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-3941 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3941, GHSA-27v5-v9w4-6pr5, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3941.