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VLC Media Player Multiple Vulnerabilities Jun19 (Windows)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

General

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

4 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

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

Insight

Insight

Multiple flaws exist due to, - An out of bounds write error in faad2 library. - Multiple out-of-band read errors. - Multiple heap overflow errors. - A NULL pointer dereference error. - Multiple use-after-free issues. - An integer underflow error. - Multiple integer overflow errors. - A division by zero error. - A floating point exception error. - An infinite loop error.

Affected Software

Affected Software

VideoLAN VLC media player version 3.0.x before 3.0.7 on Windows.

Detection Method

Detection Method

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

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.0.7 or later. Please see the references for more information.