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VLC Media Player Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA28233
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Release Date:
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2007-12-25
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Last Update:
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2008-04-22
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Popularity:
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11,623 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | VLC media player 0.x
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Binary Analysis:
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BA335 :: Available for 1 Credit 
BA336 :: Available for 1 Credit
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-6681
CVE-2007-6682
CVE-2008-1881
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in VLC Media Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
1) Boundary errors in the "ParseMicroDvd()", "ParseSSA()", and "ParseVplayer()" functions when handling subtitles can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows.
2) A format string error in the web interface listening on port 8080/tcp (disabled by default) can be exploited via a specially crafted HTTP request with a "Connection" header value containing format specifiers.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows execution of arbitrary code.
The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in version 0.8.6d. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Update to version 0.8.6f.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Originally reported by Michal Luczaj. Additional information provided by Luigi Auriemma.
2) Luigi Auriemma
Changelog:
2008-01-24: Added CVE reference.
2008-02-29: Updated "Solution" section.
2008-03-17: Updated "Solution" section and changed "Solution Status" to "Partial Fix" due to the improper fix for the "ParseSSA()" and "ParseVplayer()" boundary errors.
2008-04-04: Updated "Solution" and "Original Advisory" sections.
2008-04-22: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
VLC:
http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS
Michal Luczaj:
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2007-June/032672.html
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2007-June/033394.html
Luigi Auriemma:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt
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