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 [...]
Solution
Upgrade to VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6f :
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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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