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Debian DSA-2159-1 : vlc - missing input sanitising

high Nessus Plugin ID 51946

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Synopsis

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

Description

Dan Rosenberg discovered that insufficient input validation in VLC's processing of Matroska/WebM containers could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the vlc packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.3-1squeeze3.

The version of vlc in the oldstable distribution (lenny) is affected by further issues and will be addressed in a followup DSA.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/vlc

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2159

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 51946

File Name: debian_DSA-2159.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/11/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:vlc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/10/2011

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (VideoLAN VLC MKV Memory Corruption)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0531

BID: 46060

DSA: 2159