Out-of-Bounds Affecting videolan package, versions [,1.0.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
10.52% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIDEOLAN-2371188
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Dec 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Dec 2014

CVE-2011-3623  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade videolan to version 1.0.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

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