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openSUSE Security Update : vlc (openSUSE-2016-755)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 91773

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for vlc to version 2.1.6 fixes the following issues :

These CVE were fixed :

 - CVE-2016-5108: Reject invalid QuickTime IMA files (boo#984382).

 - CVE-2016-3941: Heap overflow in processing wav files (boo#973354).

These security issues without were fixed :

 - Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter.

 - Fix buffer overflow in updater.

 - Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder.

 - Fix NULL pointer dereference in DMO decoder.

 - Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer.

 - Fix SRTP integer overflow.

 - Fix potential crash in zip access.

 - Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer.

Solution

Update the affected vlc packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=973354

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=984382

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 91773

File Name: openSUSE-2016-755.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/23/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-qt-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-nox-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libvlccore7-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-nox, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-gnome, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libvlc5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-qt, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-gnome-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-nox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libvlccore7, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libvlc5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/22/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3941, CVE-2016-5108