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VLC Media Player ActiveX Plugin and FLAC Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA27878
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Release Date:
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2007-12-03
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Last Update:
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2007-12-07
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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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 Patch
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| Software: | VLC media player 0.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2007-4619 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-6262 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in VLC Media Player, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
1) An error within the ActiveX plugin of VLC Media Player can be exploited to overwrite certain memory zones and execute arbitrary code when a user e.g. visits a malicious website.
Note: This affects the Windows versions only.
2) Some vulnerabilities are caused due to the use of a vulnerable version of the FLAC library, which contains multiple integer overflows.
For more information:
SA27210
Note: This may affect the Windows and Mac OS X binaries only.
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Solution:
Update to version 0.8.6d.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Provided and/or discovered by:
1) The vendor credits Ricardo Narvaja (Ricnar), Core Security Technologies.
2) Originally reported in FLAC by Sean de Regge via iDefense Labs and Greg Linares, eEye Digital Security.
Changelog:
2007-12-05: Added link to Core Security.
2007-12-07: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
VLC:
http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html
http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS
CORE-2007-1004:
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2035
Other References:
SA27210:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27210/
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