Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in VLC, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
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TITLE:
VLC Speex Header Processing Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29878
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29878/
CRITICAL:
Highly critical
IMPACT:
DoS, System access
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
VLC media player 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/7788/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in VLC, which can potentially be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
For more information:
SA29727
The vulnerability is reported in version 0.8.6f. Other versions may
also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/8060b3457e20e6223b70927693f8da8f547b8fef
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
oCERT
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-004.html
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1556
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA29727:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29727/
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