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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:45:09 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: vlc


The tone of the VLC advisory suggests it's not ready for public release,
but given the public nature of this list, I'm filling in the CVE
description anyway.

Use CVE-2008-0984

- Steve


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Name: CVE-2008-0984
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0984
Reference: CONFIRM:http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0802.html

The MP4 demuxer (mp4.c) for VLC media player 0.8.6d and earlier allows
remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and execute arbitrary
code via a malformed MP4 file.


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