Gentoo: GLSA-200809-06 Normal: VLC Remote Code Execution Threat
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September 7, 2008
Two vulnerabilities in VLC may lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200809-06
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: September 07, 2008
Bugs: #235238, #235589
ID: 200809-06
Synopsis
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Two vulnerabilities in VLC may lead to the remote 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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1 media-video/vlc < 0.8.6i-r2 >= 0.8.6i-r2
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g_ reported the following vulnerabilities:
* An integer overflow leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the
Open() function in modules/demux/tta.c (CVE-2008-3732).
* A signe...
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