[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200807-13 ] VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200807-13

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http://security.gentoo.org/

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Severity: Normal

Title: VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities

Date: July 31, 2008

Bugs: #221959, #230692

ID: 200807-13

 

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Synopsis

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Multiple vulnerabilities in VLC may allow for the execution of

arbitrary code.

 

Background

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

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 media-video/vlc < 0.8.6i >= 0.8.6i

 

Description

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* 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

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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

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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All VLC users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

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

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-2147

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2147

[ 2 ] CVE-2008-2430

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2430

 

Availability

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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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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the

confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost

importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to

security ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

http://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5