Security Advisory SA35558 - VLC Media Player SMB Input Module Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA35558

VLC Media Player SMB Input Module Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA35558

Release Date

2009-06-26

Last Update

2009-07-20

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Criticality level

Highly critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

Vendor Workaround

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Software:

VLC media player 0.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2009-2484 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "Win32AddConnection()" function in modules/access/smb.c. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow by e.g. tricking a user into opening a playlist file having an overly long "smb://" URI.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

NOTE: The vulnerability affects Windows builds only.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 0.9.9. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Fixed in the GIT repository.
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Reported by the vendor as a crash.

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Original Advisory
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=e60a9038b13b5eb805a76755efc5c6d5e080180f

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