Gentoo GLSA-200804-25: Moderate VLC Code Execution Threat

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200804-25 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: VLC: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code Date: April 23, 2008 Bugs: #214277, #214627 ID: 200804-25

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities were found in VLC, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-video/vlc < 0.8.6f >= 0.8.6f
========== Multiple vulnerabilities were found in VLC:
* Luigi Auriemma discovered that the stack-based buffer overflow when reading subtitles, which has been reported as CVE-2007-6681 i...