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Debian DSA-2218-1 : vlc - heap-based buffer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 53393

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Synopsis

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

Description

Aliz Hammond discovered that the MP4 decoder plugin of VLC, a multimedia player and streamer, is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow. This has been introduced by a wrong data type being used for a size calculation. An attacker could use this flaw to trick a victim into opening a specially crafted MP4 file and possibly execute arbitrary code or crash the media player.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by this problem.

Solution

Upgrade the vlc packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.3-1squeeze5.

See Also

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2218

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 53393

File Name: debian_DSA-2218.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/13/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1684

BID: 47293

DSA: 2218