gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200807-13">
  <title>VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities in VLC may allow for the execution of arbitrary
    code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">vlc</product>
  <announced>2008-07-31</announced>
  <revised count="01">2008-07-31</revised>
  <bug>221959</bug>
  <bug>230692</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-video/vlc" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.8.6i</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.8.6i</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <ul><li>Remi Denis-Courmont reported that VLC loads plugins from the
    current working directory in an unsafe manner (CVE-2008-2147).</li>
    <li>Alin Rad Pop (Secunia Research) reported an integer overflow error
    in the Open() function in the file modules/demux/wav.c
    (CVE-2008-2430).</li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted .wav
    file, and a local attacker could entice a user to run VLC from a
    directory containing specially crafted modules, possibly resulting in
    the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
    the application.
    </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-0.8.6i"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2147">CVE-2008-2147</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2430">CVE-2008-2430</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-05-22T17:39:12Z">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-06-03T15:20:33Z">
    vorlon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-07-22T11:52:52Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>