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VLC Media Player < 1.1.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities
high Log Correlation Engine Plugin ID 801178
Synopsis
The remote host contains an application that allows arbitrary code execution.Description
The remote host contains VLC player, a multi-media application.Versions of VLC media player earlier than 1.1.6 are potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities :
- An integer overflow vulnerability exists due to a failure to properly parse the header of a Real Media, which could then trigger a heap-based buffer overflow. It is not yet known if this issue can be exploited to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2010-3907)
- There are two heap corruption vulnerabilities in the CDG decoders that arise because of a failure to validate indices into statically-sized arrays on the heap, which could allow for arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2011-0021)
- A heap-based memory corruption vulnerability exists i the StripTags function in the USF decoder. (CVE-20111-0522)
Solution
Upgrade to VLC Media Player version 1.1.6 or later.See Also
git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=6568965770f906d34d4aef83237842a5376adb55
http://.videolan.org/security/sa1007.html
git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=f9b664eac0e1a7bceed9d7b5854fd9fc351b4aab
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 801178
Family: Web Clients
Published: 1/27/2010
Nessus ID: 51772
Vulnerability Information
Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2010
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/25/2011
Exploitable With
CANVAS (White_Phosphorus)