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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-3623: VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2011-3623: VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/26/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in VideoLAN VLC media player before 1.0.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted ASF file, related to the ASF_ObjectDumpDebug function in modules/demux/asf/libasf.c; (2) a crafted AVI file, related to the AVI_ChunkDumpDebug_level function in modules/demux/avi/libavi.c; or (3) a crafted MP4 file, related to the __MP4_BoxDumpStructure function in modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-video-vlc

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