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VLC Media Player XSPF Processing Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA32267
Release Date: 2008-10-15
Popularity: 5,486 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:VLC media player 0.x

Binary Analysis: BA590 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported by VLC Media Player, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a signedness error within the "parse_track_node()" function in modules/demux/playlist/xspf.c. This can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted XSPF file containing a negative "identifier" attribute.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.9.3.

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