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VLC Media Player Multiple Vulnerabilities-03 Jan15 (Mac OS X)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

General

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

9 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The host is installed with VLC media player and is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.

Insight

Insight

Multiple flaws are due to, - Multiple errors in the A/52 audio decoder, DTS audio decoder, MPEG audio decoder, AVI demuxer, ASF demuxer and Matroska demuxer. - An error when processing XSPF playlists. - A use-after-free error when attempting to create a playlist of the contents of a malformed zip archive. - An error in the RTMP implementation.

Affected Software

Affected Software

VideoLAN VLC media player before 1.0.6 on Mac OS X.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to VideoLAN VLC media player version 1.0.6 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)