Summary
The host is installed with VLC Media Player and is prone buffer overflow vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a malicious file or visiting a specially crafted web page.
Impact Level: Application
Solution
Upgrade to the VLC media player version 1.1.9 or later, For updates refer to http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/
Insight
The flaw is caused by a heap corruption error in the 'MP4_ReadBox_skcr()' [modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c] function when processing malformed MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14) data.
Affected
VLC media player version prior to 1.1.9 on Linux
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-1684 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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