<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200807-13"> <title>VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis> Multiple vulnerabilities in VLC may allow for the execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">vlc</product> <announced>2008-07-31</announced> <revised count="01">2008-07-31</revised> <bug>221959</bug> <bug>230692</bug> <access>local, remote</access> <affected> <package name="media-video/vlc" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">0.8.6i</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">0.8.6i</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server. </p> </background> <description> <ul><li>Remi Denis-Courmont reported that VLC loads plugins from the current working directory in an unsafe manner (CVE-2008-2147).</li> <li>Alin Rad Pop (Secunia Research) reported an integer overflow error in the Open() function in the file modules/demux/wav.c (CVE-2008-2430).</li> </ul> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> 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. </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-0.8.6i"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2147">CVE-2008-2147</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2430">CVE-2008-2430</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-05-22T17:39:12Z"> keytoaster </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-06-03T15:20:33Z"> vorlon </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-07-22T11:52:52Z"> p-y </metadata> </glsa>