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TITLE:
VLC Media Player ActiveX Plugin and FLAC Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27878

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27878/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

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

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

1) An error within the ActiveX plugin of VLC Media Player can be
exploited to overwrite certain memory zones and execute arbitrary
code when a user e.g. visits a malicious website.

Note: This affects the Windows versions only.

2) Some vulnerabilities are caused due to the use of a vulnerable
version of the FLAC library, which contains multiple integer
overflows.

For more information:
SA27210

Note: This may affect the Windows and Mac OS X binaries only.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.8.6d.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) The vendor credits Ricardo Narvaja (Ricnar), Core Security
Technologies.
2) Originally reported in FLAC by Sean de Regge via iDefense Labs and
Greg Linares, eEye Digital Security.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.videolan.org/sa0703.html
http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA27210:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27210/

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