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VLC < 3.0.21 DoS

high Nessus Plugin ID 208025

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Synopsis

The remote host contains a media player that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

VLC media player 3.0.20 and earlier is vulnerable to denial of service through an integer overflow which could be triggered with a maliciously crafted mms stream (heap based overflow). If successful, a malicious third party could trigger either a crash of VLC or an arbitrary code execution with the target user's privileges.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to VLC version 3.0.21 or later.

See Also

https://www.videolan.org/security/sb-vlc3021.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 208025

File Name: vlc_3_0_21.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 10/2/2024

Updated: 10/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-46461

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8

Temporal Score: 7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:videolan:vlc_media_player

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-46461

IAVB: 2024-B-0148