Gentoo: GLSA-200707-12 Normal: VLC Media Player Remote Execution Issue
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July 28, 2007
A vulnerability has been discovered in VLC media player, allowing for the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200707-12
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: VLC media player: Format string vulnerabilities
Date: July 28, 2007
Bugs: #182389
ID: 200707-12
Synopsis
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A vulnerability has been discovered in VLC media player, allowing for
the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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VLC media player is a multimedia player for various audio and video
formats.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-video/vlc < 0.8.6c >= 0.8.6c
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David Thiel from iSEC Partners Inc. discovered format string errors in
various plugins when parsing data. The affected plugins include Vorbis,
Theor...
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