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VLC Media Player Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA29878
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Release Date:
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2008-04-18
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Last Update:
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2008-05-13
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Popularity:
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5,611 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Workaround
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| Software: | VLC media player 0.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-1686
CVE-2008-2147
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in VLC Media Player, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.
1) An input validation error exists in the processing of Speex headers.
For more information:
SA29727
2) The problem is that the application executes e.g. the "vlc_entry__0_8_6" symbol from libraries with a file name matching the "lib*_plugin.so" pattern, placed in the "modules" or "plugins" subdirectories of the current working directory. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges by tricking a user into playing a file placed in a directory containing specially crafted libraries.
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 0.8.6f. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Fixed in the GIT repository.
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/8060b3457e20e6223b70927693f8da8f547b8fef
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/48a985ecd756e3969c4b55998f24e281f03c1536
Provided and/or discovered by:
1) oCERT
2) Reported by courmisch in a VLC bug report.
Changelog:
2008-05-13: Added vulnerability #2 to the advisory. Updated the "Solution" and "Original Advisory" sections. Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
1) http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-004.html
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1556
2) http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1578
Other References:
SA29727:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29727/
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