Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in VLC Media Player, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. These issues are caused by stack overflow errors in the "ASF_ObjectDumpDebug()" [modules/demux/asf/libasf.c], "AVI_ChunkDumpDebug_level()" [modules/demux/avi/libavi.c] and "__MP4_BoxDumpStructure()" [modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c] functions when processing a malformed ASF, AVI or MP4 file, which could be exploited to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a malicious file.

Affected Products

VLC Media Player version 1.0.1 and prior

Solution

Apply patches :
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=dfe7084e8cc64e9b7a87cd37065b59cba2064823
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=c5b02d011b8c634d041167f4d2936b55eca4d18d
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=861e374d03e6c60c7d3c98428c632fe3b9e371b2

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2691
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=dfe7084e8cc64e9b7a87cd37065b59cba2064823
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=c5b02d011b8c634d041167f4d2936b55eca4d18d
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=861e374d03e6c60c7d3c98428c632fe3b9e371b2

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Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Sebastian Apelt (Siberas).

Changelog

2009-09-18 : Initial release

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