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VLC Media Player Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA28233  
Release Date: 2007-12-25
Last Update: 2008-04-22

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

Software:VLC media player 0.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-6681 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-6682 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2008-1881 (Secunia mirror)

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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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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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5. VLC Media Player ActiveX Plugin and FLAC Vulnerabilities
6. VLC Media Player Multiple Plugins Format String Vulnerabilities
7. VLC Media Player "udp://" URI Handling Format String Vulnerability


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