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openSUSE Leap 42.1: 2016:0476-1 Important: vlc Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey February 16, 2016
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A critical update for Fedora addressing a security vulnerability in gimp resolves a potential exposure to malware. It is crucial to update your system without delay.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for vlc fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2015-5949: Remote attackers could have caused a denial of service

(crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted 3GP file

(boo#965227)

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-213=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

libvlc5-2.2.1-24.1

libvlc5-debuginfo-2.2.1-24.1

libvlccore8-2.2.1-24.1

libvlccore8-debuginfo-2.2.1-24.1

vlc-2.2.1-24.1

vlc-debuginfo-2.2.1-24.1

vlc-debugsource-2.2.1-24.1

vlc-devel-2.2.1-24.1

vlc-gnome-2.2.1-24.1

vlc-gnome-debuginfo-2.2.1-24.1

vlc-noX-2.2.1-24.1

vlc-noX-debuginfo-2.2.1-24.1

vlc-qt-2.2.1-24.1

vlc-qt-debuginfo-2.2.1-24.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

vlc-noX-lang-2.2.1-24.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5949.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/965227

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:0476-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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