Gentoo: GLSA-200807-13 Advisory: VLC Vulnerability & Execution Risk
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July 31, 2008
Multiple vulnerabilities in VLC may allow for the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200807-13
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: July 31, 2008
Bugs: #221959, #230692
ID: 200807-13
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities in VLC may allow for the execution of
arbitrary code.
Background
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VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-video/vlc < 0.8.6i >= 0.8.6i
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* Remi Denis-Courmont reported that VLC loads plugins from the
current working directory in an unsafe manner (CVE-2008-2147).
* Alin Rad Pop (Secunia Research) reported an integer ov...
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