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VLC Media Player CUE and RealText Processing Buffer Overflows
Secunia Advisory: SA32569
Release Date: 2008-11-06
Last Update: 2008-11-26
Popularity: 4,456 views

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

Software:VLC media player 0.x

Binary Analysis: BA602 :: Available for 1 Credit
BA603 :: Available for 1 Credit

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in VLC Media Player, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) An error in the CUE demuxer can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted CUE image file.

2) An error in the RealText demuxer can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted RealText subtitle file.

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

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 0.5.0 through 0.9.5.

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