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openSUSE: 2016:1652-1 important: VLC Buffer Overflow and Out-Of-Bounds

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Calendar Grey June 22, 2016
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Addresses critical security flaws in VLC with significant enhancements on previously identified vulnerabilities.
An update that fixes 5 vulnerabilities is now available

Description

This update for vlc to 2.2.4 to fix the following security issue:

- CVE-2016-5108: Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (boo#984382).

This also include an update of codecs and libraries to fix these 3rd party

security issues:

- CVE-2016-1514: Matroska libebml EbmlUnicodeString Heap Information Leak

- CVE-2016-1515: Matroska libebml Multiple ElementList Double Free

Vulnerabilities

- CVE-2015-7981: The png_convert_to_rfc1123 function in png.c in libpng

allowed remote attackers to obtain sensitive process memory information

via crafted tIME chunk data in an image file, which triggers an

out-of-bounds read (bsc#952051).

- CVE-2015-8126: Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) png_set_PLTE and (2)

png_get_PLTE functions in libpng allowed remote attackers to cause a

denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other

impact via a small bit-depth value in an IHDR (aka image header) chunk

in a PNG...

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important update out-of-bounds openSUSE Leap VLC security codec vulnerability

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-2016-754=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

libvlc5-2.2.4-27.1

libvlc5-debuginfo-2.2.4-27.1

libvlccore8-2.2.4-27.1

libvlccore8-debuginfo-2.2.4-27.1

vlc-2.2.4-27.1

vlc-debuginfo-2.2.4-27.1

vlc-debugsource-2.2.4-27.1

vlc-devel-2.2.4-27.1

vlc-noX-2.2.4-27.1

vlc-noX-debuginfo-2.2.4-27.1

vlc-qt-2.2.4-27.1

vlc-qt-debuginfo-2.2.4-27.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

vlc-noX-lang-2.2.4-27.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7981.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8126.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1514.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1515.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5108.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/952051

https://bugzilla.suse.com/954980

https://bugzilla.suse.com/984382

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:1652-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow important update out-of-bounds openSUSE Leap VLC security codec vulnerability

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