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Title : VLC Media Player TTA Data Processing Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2394
CVE ID : CVE-2008-3732
CWE ID : CWE-189
Rated as : High Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-08-18

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A vulnerability has been identified in VLC Media Player, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an integer overflow error in the "Open()" [modules/demux/tta.c] function when processing TTA data, which could allow attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a malicious file.

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Vulnerability reported by g_.

ChangeLog

2008-08-18 : Initial release

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