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VLC Media Player Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia Advisory:

SA28233

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Release Date:

2007-12-25

Last Update:

2008-04-22

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Critical:

Highly critical

Impact:

System access

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

VLC media player 0.x

Binary Analysis:

BA335 :: Available for 1 Credit

BA336 :: Available for 1 Credit

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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.

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