From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Jan 10 2008 - 14:17:06 CST

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TITLE:
VLC Media Player SDP Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28383

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28383/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
VLC media player 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/7788/

DESCRIPTION:
Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in VLC Media Player,
which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise
a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in within
modules/access/rtsp/real_sdpplin.c when processing SDP data (Session
Description Protocol) for RTSP sessions. This can be exploited to
cause a heap-based buffer overflow e.g. when a user is enticed to
connect to a malicious server.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in version 0.8.6d. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Do not connect to untrusted streaming servers.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Luigi Auriemma

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcxhof-adv.txt

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