VLC Media Player MKV Parsing Integer Overflow Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been identified in VLC Media Player , which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error within the libmkv_plugin.dll module when parsing MKV files, which can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via an MKV file with a specially crafted header.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

NOTE: No official solution is currently available.