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Debian DSA-1004-1 : vlc - buffer overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 22546

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Simon Kilvington discovered that specially crafted PNG images can trigger a heap overflow in libavcodec, the multimedia library of ffmpeg, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The vlc media player links statically against libavcodec.

Solution

Upgrade the vlc package.

The old stable distribution (woody) isn't affected by this problem.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.1.svn20050314-1sarge1.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342208

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1004

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 22546

File Name: debian_DSA-1004.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:vlc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 3/16/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/30/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-4048

DSA: 1004