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VideoLAN VLC Data Processing Multiple Code Execution Vulnerabilities

Title : VideoLAN VLC Data Processing Multiple Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2008-0985
CVE ID : CVE-2008-0073 - CVE-2008-1489 - CVE-2008-1768 - CVE-2008-1769
Rated as : Critical

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-03-25

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in VideoLAN VLC Media Player, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system.

The first issue is caused by an integer overflow error in the "MP4_ReadBox_rdrf()" [modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c] function when handling malformed files, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted MP4 file [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/0985
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/09572892df7e72c0d4e598c0b5e076cf330d8b0a
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/18eb4fd5a75b6429d1d7058a8967696be701a00b
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/f351efa7d22645625d20204f86a44b194fde8352
http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Drew Yao.

ChangeLog

2008-03-25 : Initial release
2008-03-26 : Updated Credits
2008-03-31 : Updated Description
2008-04-02 : Updated Solution

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