GLSA 200807-13: VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	normal
Title:	VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	07/31/2008
Bugs:	#221959, #230692
ID:	200807-13

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in VLC may allow for the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
media-video/vlc	< 0.8.6i	>= 0.8.6i	All supported architectures

Description

Remi Denis-Courmont reported that VLC loads plugins from the current working directory in an unsafe manner (CVE-2008-2147).
Alin Rad Pop (Secunia Research) reported an integer overflow error in the Open() function in the file modules/demux/wav.c (CVE-2008-2430).

Impact

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.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All VLC users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/vlc-0.8.6i"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml

Concerns?

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