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TITLE:
VLC Media Player CUE and RealText Processing Buffer Overflows

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32569

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32569/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
Two 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 in the CUE demuxer can be exploited to cause a
stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted CUE image file.

2) An error in the RealText demuxer can be exploited to cause a
stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted RealText subtitle
file.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of
arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 0.5.0 through 0.9.5.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.9.6.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
VideoLAN:
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0810.html

Tobias Klein:
http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-011.txt
http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-012.txt

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