Gentoo: GLSA-200803-13: VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
Summary
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200803-13 https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High Title: VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: March 07, 2008 Bugs: #203345, #211575, #205299 ID: 200803-13
Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities were found in VLC, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code and Denial of Service.
Background ========= VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-video/vlc < 0.8.6e >= 0.8.6e
========== Multiple vulnerabilities were found in VLC:
* Michal Luczaj and Luigi Auriemma reported that VLC contains boundary errors when handling subtitles in the ParseMicroDvd(), ParseSSA(), and ParseVplayer() functions in the modules/demux/subtitle.c file, allowing for a stack-based buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681).
* The web interface listening on port 8080/tcp contains a format string error in the httpd_FileCallBack() function in the network/httpd.c file (CVE-2007-6682).
* The browser plugin possibly contains an argument injection vulnerability (CVE-2007-6683).
* The RSTP module triggers a NULL pointer dereference when processing a request without a "Transport" parameter (CVE-2007-6684).
* Luigi Auriemma and Remi Denis-Courmont found a boundary error in the modules/access/rtsp/real_sdpplin.c file when processing SDP data for RTSP sessions (CVE-2008-0295) and a vulnerability in the libaccess_realrtsp plugin (CVE-2008-0296), possibly resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow.
* Felipe Manzano and Anibal Sacco (Core Security Technologies) discovered an arbitrary memory overwrite vulnerability in VLC's MPEG-4 file format parser (CVE-2008-0984).
Impact ===== A remote attacker could send a long subtitle in a file that a user is enticed to open, a specially crafted MP4 input file, long SDP data, or a specially crafted HTTP request with a "Connection" header value containing format specifiers, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code. Also, a Denial of Service could be caused and arbitrary files could be overwritten via the "demuxdump-file" option in a filename in a playlist or via an EXTVLCOPT statement in an MP3 file.
Workaround ========= There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution ========= All VLC users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/vlc-0.8.6e"
References ========= [ 1 ] CVE-2007-6681 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6681 [ 2 ] CVE-2007-6682 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6682 [ 3 ] CVE-2007-6683 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6683 [ 4 ] CVE-2007-6684 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6684 [ 5 ] CVE-2008-0295 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0295 [ 6 ] CVE-2008-0296 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0296 [ 7 ] CVE-2008-0984 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0984
Availability =========== This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200803-13
Concerns? ======== Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org/.
License ====== Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
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