A vulnerability has been identified in VLC Media Player, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an array index error in "demux/playlist/xspf.c" when processing XSPF playlists with a negative "Identifier" attribute, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a malicious playlist file.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Francisco Falcon (Core Security Technologies).
ChangeLog
2008-10-15 : Initial release
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