Summary
Multiple buffer overflows have been found in the VideoLAN media player.
Processing malformed subtitles or movie files could lead to denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.3-5+deb7u1.
For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.0-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.0-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your vlc packages.
Insight
VLC is the VideoLAN project's media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.
Affected
vlc on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2013-1868, CVE-2013-1954, CVE-2013-4388 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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