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VLC Media Player Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA36762
Release Date: 2009-09-17
Last Update: 2009-09-23
Popularity: 5,001 views

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

Software:VLC media player 1.x

Binary Analysis: BA859 :: Available for 1 Credit

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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

1) A boundary error exists within the "ASF_ObjectDumpDebug()" function in modules/demux/asf/libasf.c. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted ASF file.

2) A boundary error exists within the "AVI_ChunkDumpDebug_level()" function in modules/demux/avi/libavi.c. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted AVI file.

3) A boundary error exists within the "__MP4_BoxDumpStructure()" function in modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c. This can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted MP4 file.

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

Vulnerability #2 is confirmed in version 1.0.1. Other versions may also be affected.

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