Out-of-Bounds Affecting videolan package, versions [,1.1.10)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.99% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIDEOLAN-2371224
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Jul 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Jul 2011

CVE-2011-1931  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade videolan to version 1.1.10 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds sp5xdec.c in the Sunplus SP5X JPEG decoder in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.6.3 and libav through 0.6.2, as used in VideoLAN VLC media player 1.1.9 and earlier and other products, performs a write operation outside the bounds of an unspecified array, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed AMV file.

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