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VLC Media Player Multiple Vulnerabilities

Secunia Advisory:

SA29878

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Release Date:

2008-04-18

Last Update:

2008-05-13

Popularity:

7,328 views

Critical:

Highly critical

Impact:

Privilege escalation
DoS
System access

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Vendor Workaround

Software:

VLC media player 0.x

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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/

Change Page:
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