A vulnerability has been discovered in VLC Media Player, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow within the "ReadRealIndex()" function in modules/demux/real.c. This can be exploited to e.g. cause a heap-based buffer overflow by tricking a user into opening a malicious file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.9.0 through 0.9.7 and confirmed in version 0.9.8. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 0.9.8a.

Provided and/or discovered by
Tobias Klein

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Original Advisory
VideoLAN-SA-0811:
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0811.html

Tobias Klein:
http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-013.txt

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