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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200707-12">
<title>VLC media player: Format string vulnerabilities</title>
<synopsis>
A vulnerability has been discovered in VLC media player, allowing for the
remote execution of arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">vlc</product>
<announced>July 28, 2007</announced>
<revised>July 28, 2007: 01</revised>
<bug>182389</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="media-video/vlc" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.8.6c</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.8.6c</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
VLC media player is a multimedia player for various audio and video
formats.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
David Thiel from iSEC Partners Inc. discovered format string errors in
various plugins when parsing data. The affected plugins include Vorbis,
Theora, CDDA and SAP.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted media
file, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user running VLC media player.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All VLC media player users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=media-video/vlc-0.8.6c&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3316">CVE-2007-3316</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:42:20 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:31:02 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:31:47 +0000">
p-y
</metadata>
</glsa>