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TITLE:
Visualization Library DAT Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38162

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38162/

DESCRIPTION:
Secunia Research has discovered some vulnerabilities in Visualization
Library, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a
user's system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors within the
"vl::loadDAT()" and "vl::isDAT()" functions in src/vl/vlDAT.cpp. This
can be exploited to execute arbitrary code by e.g. tricking a user
into opening a specially crafted DAT file.

The vulnerabilities are confirmed in version 2009.08.812. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Do not process untrusted DAT files in an application using the
library.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Secunia Research

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-2/

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