Gentoo: GLSA-200812-24 Moderate: VLC Remote Execution Threats
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December 24, 2008
Multiple vulnerabilities in VLC may lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200812-24
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: December 24, 2008
Bugs: #245774, #249391
ID: 200812-24
Synopsis
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Multiple 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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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 media-video/vlc < 0.9.8a >= 0.9.8a
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Tobias Klein reported the following vulnerabilities:
* A stack-based buffer overflow when processing CUE image files in
modules/access/vcd/cdrom.c (CVE-2008-5032).
* A stack-based buffer overflow...
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