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

The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition error when creating bookmarks and can be exploited to corrupt memory by tricking a user into creating a bookmark while playing a specially crafted file.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.0.5. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 1.0.6.

Provided and/or discovered by
Gjoko Krstic

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Original Advisory
http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2010-4931.php

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