metadata/glsa/glsa-200707-12.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200707-12">
  <title>VLC media player: Format string vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability has been discovered in VLC media player, allowing for the
    remote execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">vlc</product>
  <announced>July 28, 2007</announced>
  <revised>July 28, 2007: 01</revised>
  <bug>182389</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-video/vlc" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.8.6c</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.8.6c</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    VLC media player is a multimedia player for various audio and video
    formats.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    David Thiel from iSEC Partners Inc. discovered format string errors in
    various plugins when parsing data. The affected plugins include Vorbis,
    Theora, CDDA and SAP.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted media
    file, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the
    privileges of the user running VLC media player.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All VLC media player users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=media-video/vlc-0.8.6c&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3316">CVE-2007-3316</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:42:20 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:31:02 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:31:47 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>