Vulnerable Systems:
* VLC media player 0.8.6f and earlier
When initializing its plugins cache, VLC will look for dynamically loadable plugins in the modules/ and plugins/ subdirectories from the current working directory. VLC will then jump to the versioned vlc_entry__x_y_z symbol if present, and execute code with user privileges.
Vendor Status:
VideoLAN had issued an update for this vulnerability