The host is installed with VLC Media Player and is prone to buffer overflow vulnerability.

Successful exploitation could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the application. Failed attacks will cause denial-of-service conditions. Impact Level: Application

Upgrade to the VLC media player version 1.1.11 or later, For updates refer to http://www.videolan.org/

The flaw is due to an integer underflow error when parsing the 'strf' chunk within AVI files can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.

VLC media player version prior to 1.1.11 on Windows.

• http://secunia.com/advisories/45066
• http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1106.html
• http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/68532

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Updated on 2015-03-25