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VLC Media Player TTA Processing Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Critical
Family
Family
Denial of Service
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
5 years ago
Summary
The host is running VLC Media Player, which is prone to a integer overflow vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to an overflow error when processing TTA data in Open() method in modules/demux/tta.c file.
Affected Software
Affected Software
VLC Media Player version 0.8.6i and prior on Windows (All).
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to VLC Media Player version 1.0 or later.