gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200804-25.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200804-25">
  <title>VLC: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities were found in VLC, allowing for the execution of
    arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">vlc</product>
  <announced>2008-04-23</announced>
  <revised count="01">2008-04-23</revised>
  <bug>214277</bug>
  <bug>214627</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-video/vlc" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.8.6f</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.8.6f</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Multiple vulnerabilities were found in VLC:
    </p>
    <ul>
    <li>
    Luigi Auriemma discovered that the stack-based buffer overflow when
    reading subtitles, which has been reported as CVE-2007-6681 in GLSA
    200803-13, was not properly fixed (CVE-2008-1881).
    </li>
    <li>
    Alin Rad Pop of Secunia reported an array indexing vulnerability in the
    sdpplin_parse() function when processing streams from RTSP servers in
    Xine code, which is also used in VLC (CVE-2008-0073).
    </li>
    <li>
    Drew Yao and Nico Golde reported an integer overflow in the
    MP4_ReadBox_rdrf() function in the file libmp4.c leading to a
    heap-based buffer overflow when reading MP4 files (CVE-2008-1489).
    </li>
    <li>Drew Yao also reported integer overflows in the MP4 demuxer,
    the Real demuxer and in the Cinepak codec, which might lead to buffer
    overflows (CVE-2008-1768).</li>
    <li>Drew Yao finally discovered and a
    boundary error in Cinepak, which might lead to memory corruption
    (CVE-2008-1769).</li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted media
    file or stream, possibly resulting in the remote execution of 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-0.8.6f"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6681">CVE-2007-6681</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0073">CVE-2008-0073</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1489">CVE-2008-1489</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1768">CVE-2008-1768</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1769">CVE-2008-1769</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1881">CVE-2008-1881</uri>
    <uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml">GLSA 200803-13</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-03-24T19:42:45Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-04-14T00:49:24Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-04-14T00:56:14Z">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>