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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:0091-1 Important: VLC Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey January 16, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A significant openSUSE patch tackles two critical VLC security flaws and offers detailed guidance for installation.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for vlc fixes the following issues:

Update to 3.0.11.1:

- CVE-2020-13428: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow in the

hxxx_AnnexB_to_xVC () (boo#1172727)

- CVE-2020-26664: Fixed heap-based buffer overflow in

EbmlTypeDispatcher:send () (boo#1180755)

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Topics Covered

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Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-91=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

libvlc5-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

libvlc5-debuginfo-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

libvlccore9-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

libvlccore9-debuginfo-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

vlc-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

vlc-codec-gstreamer-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

vlc-codec-gstreamer-debuginfo-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

vlc-debuginfo-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

vlc-debugsource-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

vlc-devel-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

vlc-jack-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

vlc-jack-debuginfo-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

vlc-noX-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

vlc-noX-debuginfo-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

vlc-opencv-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

vlc-opencv-debuginfo-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

vlc-qt-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

vlc-qt-debuginfo-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

vlc-vdpau-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

vlc-vdpau-debuginfo-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

vlc-lang-3.0.11.1-lp152.2.9.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-13428.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-26664.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1133290

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1172727

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1180755

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0091-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 ble.

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