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VLC Media Player USF and Text Subtitles Decoders BOF Vulnerabilities (Linux)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Buffer overflow
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
6.8
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
13 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The host is installed with VLC Media Player and is prone to buffer overflow vulnerabilities.
Insight
Insight
The flaws are caused by buffer overflow errors in the 'StripTags()' function within the USF and Text subtitles decoders 'modules/codec/subtitles/subsdec.c' and 'modules/codec/subtitles/subsusf.c' when processing malformed data.
Affected Software
Affected Software
VLC media player version 1.x before 1.1.6-rc
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to the VLC media player version 1.1.6-rc or later.