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VLC Media Player Stack Overflow Vulnerability (Lin-Mar09)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Buffer overflow
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
15 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
This host is installed with VLC Media Player and is prone to Stack Overflow Vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
This flaw is due to improper boundary checking in status.xml in the web interface by an overly long request.
Affected Software
Affected Software
VLC media player 0.9.8a and prior on Linux.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to VLC media player version 1.0 or later.