Secunia Security Advisory - Hossein Lotfi has discovered two vulnerabilities in VLC Media Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
VLC Media Player RealMedia and AVI File Parsing Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45066
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-07-14
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DESCRIPTION:
Hossein Lotfi has discovered two vulnerabilities in VLC Media Player,
which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's
system.
1) An integer overflow error when parsing a RealAudio data block
within RealMedia (RM) files can be exploited to cause a heap-based
buffer overflow.
2) An integer underflow error when parsing the "strf" chunk within
AVI files can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows execution of
arbitrary code.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 1.1.10. Prior versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository. Fixes will be available in version
1.1.11.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Hossein Lotfi via Secunia
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
VideoLAN-SA-1105:
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1105.html
VideoLAN-SA-1106:
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1106.html
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