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TITLE:
VLC Media Player Real Demuxer Integer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32942

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32942/

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 an integer overflow within the
"ReadRealIndex()" function in modules/demux/real.c. This can be
exploited to e.g. cause a heap-based buffer overflow by tricking a
user into opening a malicious file.

Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 0.9.0 through 0.9.6.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.9.7.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tobias Klein

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
VideoLAN-SA-0811:
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0811.html

Tobias Klein:
http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-013.txt

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