From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Oct 20 2008 - 19:10:05 CDT

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TITLE:
VLC Media Player TY Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32339

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32339/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
From remote

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

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the processing
of TY files and can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer
overflow.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.9.0 through 0.9.4. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=26d92b87bba99b5ea2e17b7eaa39c462d65e9133

The vendor recommends to refrain from opening untrusted files or from
visiting untrusted websites. Please see the vendor's advisory for
additional workaround information.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Tobias Klein.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
VideoLAN:
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0809.html

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