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: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-200807-13 First vendor Publication 2008-07-31
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2008-07-31
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

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:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in VLC may allow for the execution of arbitrary code.

Background

VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server.

Description

* Remi Denis-Courmont reported that VLC loads plugins from the current working directory in an unsafe manner (CVE-2008-2147).

* Alin Rad Pop (Secunia Research) reported an integer overflow error in the Open() function in the file modules/demux/wav.c (CVE-2008-2430).

Impact

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted .wav file, and a local attacker could entice a user to run VLC from a directory containing specially crafted modules, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All VLC users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=media-video/vlc-0.8.6i"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-2147 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2147
[ 2 ] CVE-2008-2430 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2430

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
50 % CWE-189 Numeric Errors (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14344
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14344
Title: Integer overflow in the Open function in modules/demux/wav.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6h on Windows
Description: Integer overflow in the Open function in modules/demux/wav.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6h on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large fmt chunk in a WAV file.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-2430
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows XP
 Product(s): VLC Media Player
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14769
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14769
Title: DEPRECATED: Untrusted search path vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC before 0.9.0
Description: Integer overflow in the Open function in modules/demux/wav.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6h on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large fmt chunk in a WAV file.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-2430
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows XP
 Product(s): VLC Media Player
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 60
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-06-23 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1819-1 (vlc)
File : nvt/deb_1819_1.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200807-13 (vlc)
File : nvt/glsa_200807_13.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
46660 VLC Media Player modules/demux/wav.c Open() Function Crafted WAV File Handlin...
45187 VLC modules / plugins Subdirectory Search Path Subversion Local Privilege Esc...

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 VideoLAN VLC Media Player WAV processing integer overflow attempt
RuleID : 15080 - Revision : 13 - Type : FILE-MULTIMEDIA

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-06-19 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1819.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-08-01 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200807-13.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-15 Name : The remote Windows host contains an application that is affected by an intege...
File : vlc_0_8_6i.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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