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>> VLC Security Update Fixes GnuTLS and Libxml2 Vulnerabilities

Title : VLC Security Update Fixes GnuTLS and Libxml2 Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1762
CVE ID : CVE-2007-6284 - CVE-2008-1948 - CVE-2008-1949 - CVE-2008-1950
CWE ID : CWE-20 - CWE-119 - CWE-476
Rated as : High Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-06-09

Technical Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in VLC Media Player, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. These issues are caused by errors in GnuTLS and Libxml2 related to : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1582 - VUPEN/ADV-2008-0117

Affected Products

VLC Media Player version 0.8.6g and prior

Solution

Upgrade to VLC Media Player version 0.8.6h :
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1762
http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6h

ChangeLog

2008-06-09 : Initial release

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