VLC Media Player Denial Of Service Vulnerability -01 June14 (Linux) Network Vulnerability

Summary

This host is installed with VLC Media Player and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.

Impact

Successful exploitation will allow attackers to cause a denial of service conditions or potentially execute arbitrary code. Impact Level: System/Application

Solution

No solution or patch is available as of 9th February, 2015. Information regarding this issue will be updated once the solution details are available. For updates refer to http://www.videolan.org/vlc

Insight

The flaw exist as user-supplied input is not properly sanitized when handling a specially crafted WAV file.

Affected

VLC media player version 2.1.3 on Linux.

Detection

Get the installed version with the help of detect NVT and check the version is vulnerable or not.

References