CVE-2014-6440

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

4.98% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 91.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2017-03-28 15:00Z9 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 12:17Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2014-09-16

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass

Data version

5.1

Document digest

9cd06f2a9ee33656203ecb43e639cb3cb37e0feb21677a56a6eec42a9a93d73e

• www.videolan.orghttp://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWSx_refsource_MISC
• www.securityfocus.com72950http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72950vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201603-08https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-08vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• seclists.org[oss-security] 20150304 CVE-2014-6440: Heap Overflow in VLC Transcode Modulehttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/751mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• billblough.nethttp://billblough.net/blog/2015/03/04/cve-2014-6440-heap-overflow-in-vlc-transcode-module/x_refsource_MISC