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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2013.0131 A vulnerability has been identified in VLC media player 31 January 2013 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: VLC media player Publisher: The VideoLAN Project Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX) Windows Mobile Device Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote with User Interaction Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction Resolution: Patch/Upgrade Original Bulletin: http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1302.html - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- Security Advisory 1302 Summary : Buffer Overflow in ASF Demuxer Date : January 2013 Affected versions : VLC media player 2.0.5 and earlier ID : VideoLAN-SA-1302 CVE reference : CVE-XXXX-XXXX Details When parsing a specially crafted ASF movie, a buffer overflow might occur. Impact If successful, a malicious third party could trigger an invalid memory access, leading to a crash of VLC media player's process. In some cases attackers might exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the application but this information is not confirmed. Threat mitigation Exploitation of this issue requires the user to explicitly open a specially crafted ASF movie. Workarounds The user should refrain from opening files from untrusted third parties or accessing untrusted remote sites (or disable the VLC browser plugins), until the patch is applied. Alternatively, the ASF demuxer (libasf_plugin.*) can be removed manually from the VLC plugin installation directory. This will prevent ASF movie playback. Solution This issue is addressed in VLC media player 2.0.x source code repository by replacing a macro with a static inline and improved bounds checking. This patch is included in VLC's future 2.0.6 release. Windows and Mac OS X builds can be found on the VideoLAN nightlies website. Credits This vulnerability was reported by Debasish Mandal. References The VideoLAN project http://www.videolan.org/ VLC official GIT repository http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git History xx Jan 2013 VLC media player 2.0.6 release. 17 Jan 2013 Nightly builds version of VLC 2.0.6 released for testing purposes. 17 Jan 2013 Patch for VLC media player committed to the source code repository, and to the stable branch. 11 Jan 2013 Crash reported to the VLC project. - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- You have received this e-mail bulletin as a result of your organisation's registration with AusCERT. The mailing list you are subscribed to is maintained within your organisation, so if you do not wish to continue receiving these bulletins you should contact your local IT manager. 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