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Gentoo: GLSA-201411-01 Normal: VLC Multiple Code Issues

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2014
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Enhance VLC on Gentoo to address vulnerabilities associated with various security issues that could result in code execution risks.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in VLC, the worst of which could lead to user-assisted execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VLC. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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security advisory gentoo multiple issues vlc normal severity

Resolution

All VLC users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/vlc-2.1.2"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2010-1441 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1441 [ 2 ] CVE-2010-1442 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1442 [ 3 ] CVE-2010-1443 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1443 [ 4 ] CVE-2010-1444 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1444 [ 5 ] CVE-2010-1445 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1445 [ 6 ] CVE-2010-2062 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-2062 [ 7 ] CVE-2010-2937 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-2937 [ 8 ] CVE-2010-3124 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3124 [ 9 ] CVE-2010-3275 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3275 [ 10 ] CVE-2010-3276 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3276 [ 11 ] CVE-2010-3907 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3907 [ 12 ] CVE-2011-0021 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-0021 [ 13 ] CVE-2011-0522 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvena...

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Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201411-01
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: November 05, 2014
Bugs: #279340, #285370, #316709, #332361, #350933, #352206,
ID: 201411-01

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Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in VLC, the worst of which could lead to user-assisted execution of arbitrary code.

Background

VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-video/vlc < 2.1.2 >= 2.1.2

Impact

===== A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted media file using VLC, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.