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Debian DSA-1004-1 Moderate: VLC Media Player Buffer Overflow Exploit

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Calendar Grey March 16, 2006
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Upgrade VLC on Debian to address a buffer overflow vulnerability discovered in libavcodec, which poses a significant risk of arbitrary code execution.
Simon Kilvington discovered that specially crafted PNG images can trigger a heap overflow in libavcodec, the multimedia library of ffmpeg, which may lead to the execution of arbitr...

Summary


For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8.1.svn20050314-1sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8.4.debian-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your vlc package.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 1883 b01ca47f88d5b1b3aa67aa9cf8558f79
Size/MD5 checksum: 873 f50e58c336006d091a54374866edc02d
Size/MD5 checksum: 9746520 51ecfbb072315eacf7fcaf250c26f5cb

Alpha architecture:

Size/MD5 che...

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