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Gentoo: GLSA-200812-24 Moderate: VLC Remote Execution Threats

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Calendar Grey December 24, 2008
Scroller Gentoo
Investigate various weaknesses in VLC impacting Gentoo, allowing possible remote code execution. Update recommended!
Multiple vulnerabilities in VLC may lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

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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 ======= Multiple vulnerabilities in VLC may lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-video/vlc < 0.9.8a >= 0.9.8a
========== 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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