Summary
The host is installed with VLC Media Player and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation could allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed AMV file.
Impact Level: System/Application
Solution
Upgrade to VLC media player version 1.1.10 or later, For updates refer to http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Insight
The flaw is due to error while handling 'sp5xdec.c' in the Sunplus SP5X JPEG decoder in libavcodec, performs a write operation outside the bounds of an unspecified array.
Affected
VLC media player version 1.1.9 and prior on Windows.
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-1931 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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