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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201908-23">
<title>VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
<synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in VLC, the worst of which
could result in the arbitrary execution of code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">vlc</product>
<announced>2019-08-18</announced>
<revised count="1">2019-08-18</revised>
<bug>688642</bug>
<access>local, remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="media-video/vlc" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">3.0.7</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">3.0.7</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VLC. Please review the
CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>Remote attackers, by enticing a user to execute a specially crafted
media file, could cause a Denial of Service condition or possibly execute
arbitrary code.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All VLC users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-video/vlc-3.0.7"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12874">CVE-2019-12874</uri>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5439">CVE-2019-5439</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-08-01T21:30:30Z">b-man</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-08-18T02:26:26Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>