Executive Summary

Summary
Title VLC: Buffer overflow
Informations
Name GLSA-201701-39 First vendor Publication 2017-01-17
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-01-17
Severity (Vendor) N/A 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: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

Synopsis

A buffer overflow in VLC might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Background

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

Description

A buffer overflow was discovered in the DecodeAdpcmImaQT function in modules/codec/adpcm.c in the VideoLAN VLC media player.

Impact

Remote attackers, by enticing a user to execute a specially crafted QuickTime IMA file, could cause a Denial of Service condition or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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-2.2.4"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2016-5108
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2016-5108

Availability

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-39

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201701-39.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 131
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-01-17 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201701-39.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-06-23 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-754.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-06-23 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-755.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-06-14 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_6d4028572fba11e69f315404a68ad561.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-06-09 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3598.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-01-18 13:25:47
  • Multiple Updates
2017-01-17 05:22:52
  • First insertion