Executive Summary
This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | vlc security update |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-4045 | First vendor Publication | 2017-11-21 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2017-11-21 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 7.5 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| Several vulnerabilities have been found in VLC, the VideoLAN project's media player. Processing malformed media files could lead to denial of service and potentially the execution of arbitrary code. For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.7-1~deb8u1. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.7-1~deb9u1. We recommend that you upgrade your vlc packages. For the detailed security status of vlc please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/vlc |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4045 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 50 % | CWE-787 | Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
| 50 % | CWE-119 | Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2017-12-15 | Name : A media player installed on the remote host is affected by an overflow condit... File : vlc_2_2_7.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2017-11-22 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-4045.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2017-10-02 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : openSUSE-2017-1100.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2017-10-02 | Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update. File : openSUSE-2017-1101.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2017-11-23 13:23:48 |
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| 2017-11-22 00:20:21 |
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