VLC Media Player version 1.0.5 Goldeneye suffers from a remote buffer overflow vulnerability.
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VLC media player 1.0.5 Goldeneye (bookmarks) Remote Buffer Overflow PoC
Advisory: http://zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2010-4931.php
Summary: VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player
and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio
and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1,
mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and
various streaming protocols.
Description: VLC media player is vulnerable to a buffer overflow
attack when processing .mp3 file and its metadata.
It fails to perform boundry checks when creating a
bookmark from the malicious media file playing,
resulting in a crash, overwriting ECX register.
While the evil .mp3 is playing, you go Playback >
Bookmarks > Manage bookmarks > Create.
Tested on Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3 (EN)
Version affected: 1.0.5 Goldeneye
Product web page: http://www.videolan.org
Vendor: VideoLAN team
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(e48.10fc): Access violation - code c0000005 (first chance)
First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling.
This exception may be expected and handled.
eax=039fe008 ebx=00001200 ecx=41414141 edx=03b7ab88 esi=039fe000 edi=004d0000
eip=7c911895 esp=04befcd8 ebp=04befcf0 iopl=0 nv up ei ng nz ac po cy
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00010293
ntdll!RtlInitializeCriticalSection+0x298:
7c911895 8901 mov dword ptr [ecx],eax ds:0023:41414141=????????
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Vulnerability discovered by Gjoko 'LiquidWorm' Krstic
liquidworm gmail com
Zero Science Lab - http://www.zeroscience.mk
28.02.2010
PoC:
http://zeroscience.mk/codes/aimp2_evil.mp3
[mirror] http://milw0rm.com/sploits/2009-aimp2_evil.mp3
[mirror] http://securityreason.com/download/11/13
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