VLC Media Player CUE demuxer buffer overflow

vlcmediaplayer-cue-bo (46375) The risk level is classified as HighHigh Risk

Description:

VLC Media Player is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the CUE demuxer. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted CUE image file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges or cause the application to crash.

*CVSS:

Base Score: 6.8
  Access Vector: Network
  Access Complexity: Medium
  Authentication: None
  Confidentiality Impact: Partial
  Integrity Impact: Partial
  Availability Impact: Partial
 
Temporal Score: 5.3
  Exploitability: Proof-of-Concept
  Remediation Level: Official-Fix
  Report Confidence: Confirmed

Consequences:

Gain Access

Remedy:

Refer to VideoLAN-SA-0810 for patch, upgrade or suggested workaround information. See References.

References:

  • Trapkit Security Advisory TKADV2008-012: VLC media player cue Processing Stack Overflow Vulnerability .
  • VideoLAN-SA-0810 : Buffer overflows in VLC RealText and CUE demuxers .
  • BID-32125: VLC Media Player Multiple Stack Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
  • CVE-2008-5032: Stack-based buffer overflow in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.5.0 through 0.9.5 might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via the header of an invalid CUE image file, related to modules/access/vcd/cdrom.c. NOTE: this identifier originally included an issue related to RealText, but that issue has been assigned a separate identifier, CVE-2008-5036.
  • DSA-1819: vlc -- several vulnerabilities
  • GLSA-200812-24: VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities
  • SA32569: VLC Media Player CUE and RealText Processing Buffer Overflows

Platforms Affected:

  • Debian Debian Linux 4.0
  • Gentoo Linux
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.5.0
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.5.1
  • Videolan VLC Media Player 0.5.1A
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.5.2
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.5.3
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.6.0
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.6.1
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.6.2
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.7.0
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.7.1
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.7.2
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.0
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.1
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.1337
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.2
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.4
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.4a
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.5
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6a
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6b
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6c
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6d
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6e
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6g
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6h
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6i
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.9
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.9.1
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.9.2
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.9.3
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.9.4
  • VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.9.5

Reported:

Nov 05, 2008

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