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TITLE:
VLC Media Player Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28233

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28233/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
VLC media player 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/7788/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in VLC Media Player, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) Boundary errors in the "ParseMicroDvd()", "ParseSSA()", and
"ParseVplayer()" functions when handling subtitles can be exploited
to cause stack-based buffer overflows.

2) A format string error in the web interface listening on port
8080/tcp (disabled by default) can be exploited via a specially
crafted HTTP request with a "Connection" header value containing
format specifiers.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows execution of
arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities have been confirmed in version 0.8.6d. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) Originally reported by Michal Luczaj. Additional information
provided by Luigi Auriemma.
2) Luigi Auriemma

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Michal Luczaj:
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2007-June/032672.html
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2007-June/033394.html

Luigi Auriemma:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt

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