<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200804-25"> <title>VLC: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title> <synopsis> Multiple vulnerabilities were found in VLC, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">vlc</product> <announced>April 23, 2008</announced> <revised>April 23, 2008: 01</revised> <bug>214277</bug> <bug>214627</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="media-video/vlc" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">0.8.6f</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">0.8.6f</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server. </p> </background> <description> <p> Multiple vulnerabilities were found in VLC: </p> <ul> <li> Luigi Auriemma discovered that the stack-based buffer overflow when reading subtitles, which has been reported as CVE-2007-6681 in GLSA 200803-13, was not properly fixed (CVE-2008-1881). </li> <li> Alin Rad Pop of Secunia reported an array indexing vulnerability in the sdpplin_parse() function when processing streams from RTSP servers in Xine code, which is also used in VLC (CVE-2008-0073). </li> <li> Drew Yao and Nico Golde reported an integer overflow in the MP4_ReadBox_rdrf() function in the file libmp4.c leading to a heap-based buffer overflow when reading MP4 files (CVE-2008-1489). </li> <li>Drew Yao also reported integer overflows in the MP4 demuxer, the Real demuxer and in the Cinepak codec, which might lead to buffer overflows (CVE-2008-1768).</li> <li>Drew Yao finally discovered and a boundary error in Cinepak, which might lead to memory corruption (CVE-2008-1769).</li> </ul> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted media file or stream, possibly resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All VLC users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/vlc-0.8.6f"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6681">CVE-2007-6681</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0073">CVE-2008-0073</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1489">CVE-2008-1489</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1768">CVE-2008-1768</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1769">CVE-2008-1769</uri> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1881">CVE-2008-1881</uri> <uri link="/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml">GLSA 200803-13</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:42:45 +0000"> rbu </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:49:24 +0000"> rbu </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:56:14 +0000"> rbu </metadata> </glsa>