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Gentoo: GLSA-200807-13 Advisory: VLC Vulnerability & Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey July 31, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The VLC media player on Gentoo has been flagged with several security issues that could enable unauthorized code execution. Immediate update is advised.
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 ======= Multiple vulnerabilities in VLC may allow 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 < 0.8.6i >= 0.8.6i
========== * 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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