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TITLE:
VLC Media Player XSPF Processing Memory Corruption Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32267

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32267/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

REVISION:
1.1 originally posted 2008-10-15

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

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a signedness error within the
"parse_track_node()" function in modules/demux/playlist/xspf.c. This
can be exploited to corrupt memory via a specially crafted XSPF file
containing a negative "identifier" attribute.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code. 

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.9.3.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.9.3 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Silently fixed by the vendor in version 0.9.3.

Reported as a vulnerability by Francisco Falcon, Core Security
Technologies.

CHANGELOG:
2008-10-15: Added CVE reference.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Core Security Technologies:
http://www.coresecurity.com/content/vlc-xspf-memory-corruption

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