VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Updated July 31, 2008

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Advisory Reference	GLSA 200807-13 / vlc
Release Date	July 31, 2008
Latest Revision	July 31, 2008: 01
Impact	normal
Exploitable	local, remote

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
media-video/vlc	< 0.8.6i	>= 0.8.6i	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #221959, #230692

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in VLC may allow for the execution of arbitrary code.

2. Impact Information

Background

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

Description

Remi Denis-Courmont reported that VLC loads plugins from the current working directory in an unsafe manner (CVE-2008-2147).
Alin Rad Pop (Secunia Research) reported an integer overflow error in the Open() function in the file modules/demux/wav.c (CVE-2008-2430).

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted .wav file, and a local attacker could entice a user to run VLC from a directory containing specially crafted modules, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

3. Resolution Information

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All VLC users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/vlc-0.8.6i"

4. References