Executive Summary

Summary
Title VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201707-10 First vendor Publication 2017-07-08
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-07-08
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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in VLC, the worst of which may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Background

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

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VLC. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker, by enticing a user to open a specially crafted subtitles file, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.

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-2.2.6"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-8310 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8310
[ 2 ] CVE-2017-8311 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8311
[ 3 ] CVE-2017-8312 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8312
[ 4 ] CVE-2017-8313 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-8313

Availability

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

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201707-10.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
75 % CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
25 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 134
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-07-10 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201707-10.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-28 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3899.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-07-11 13:24:30
  • Multiple Updates
2017-07-09 00:22:56
  • First insertion