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VideoLAN-SB-VLC-309: Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in VLC media player

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VideoLAN-SB-VLC-309: Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in VLC media player

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/24/2020
Created
08/17/2023
Added
08/15/2023
Modified
08/15/2023

Description

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the label-parsing functionality of Videolabs libmicrodns 0.1.0. When parsing compressed labels in mDNS messages, the rr_decode function's return value is not checked, leading to a double free that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code. An attacker can send an mDNS message to trigger this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • videolan-vlc-upgrade-3_0_9

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