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AUSCERT Security Bulletin
ASB-2010.0192
A vulnerability has been identified in VLC media player
16 August 2010
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: VLC prior to 1.1.3
Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Windows
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2010-2397
Member content until: Wednesday, September 15 2010
OVERVIEW
A vulnerability has been identified in VLC media player, prior to
version 1.1.3.
IMPACT
The vendor has provided the following description of this
vulnerability which has been assigned CVE-2010-2397:
"VLC fails to perform sufficient input validation when trying to
extract some meta-informations about input media through ID3v2 tags.
In the failure case, VLC attempt dereference an invalid memory
address, and a crash will ensure." [1]
MITIGATION
The vendor recommends upgrading to the latest version of VLC. [1]
REFERENCES
[1] VLC Security Advisory 1004
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1004.html
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takes no responsibility for consequences which may arise from following or
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The University of Queensland
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