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VLC Media Player Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA31512
Release Date: 2008-08-18
Last Update: 2008-10-27
Popularity: 6,618 views

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

Software:VLC media player 0.x

Binary Analysis: BA552 :: Available for 1 Credit

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Description:
g_ has discovered some vulnerabilities in VLC Media Player, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An integer overflow error exists within the "Open()" function in modules/demux/tta.c. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via specially crafted TTA data.

2) A signedness error exists within the "mms_ReceiveCommand()" function in modules/access/mms/mmstu.c. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by tricking the user into opening a specially crafted MMST stream.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 0.8.6i. Other versions may also be affected.

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