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VLC Media Player WAV Processing Integer Overflow
Secunia Advisory: SA30601
Release Date: 2008-07-02
Last Update: 2008-07-16
Popularity: 9,816 views

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

Software:VLC media player 0.x

Binary Analysis: BA509 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in VLC Media Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error within the "Open()" function in "modules/demux/wav.c". This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted WAV file having an overly large "fmt" chunk.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 0.8.6h on Windows. Prior versions may also be affected.

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