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FreeBSD Ports: vlc-devel

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

FreeBSD Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

9.3

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

7 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.

Insight

Insight

The following package is affected: vlc-devel CVE-2008-5276 Integer overflow in the ReadRealIndex function in real.c in the Real demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.0 through 0.9.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed RealMedia (.rm) file that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Solution

Solution

Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-013.txt http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0811.html http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/acf80afa-c3ef-11dd-a721-0030843d3802.html

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)