glsa-200807-13.xml


1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200807-13">
  <title>VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities in VLC may allow for the execution of arbitrary
    code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">vlc</product>
  <announced>July 31, 2008</announced>
  <revised>July 31, 2008: 01</revised>
  <bug>221959</bug>
  <bug>230692</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-video/vlc" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.8.6i</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.8.6i</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <ul><li>Remi Denis-Courmont reported that VLC loads plugins from the
    current working directory in an unsafe manner (CVE-2008-2147).</li>
    <li>Alin Rad Pop (Secunia Research) reported an integer overflow error
    in the Open() function in the file modules/demux/wav.c
    (CVE-2008-2430).</li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted .wav
    file, and a local attacker could entice a user to run VLC from a
    directory containing specially crafted modules, possibly resulting in
    the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running
    the application.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All VLC users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=media-video/vlc-0.8.6i&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2147">CVE-2008-2147</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2430">CVE-2008-2430</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Thu, 22 May 2008 17:39:12 +0000">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:20:33 +0000">
    vorlon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:52:52 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>