oss-security - CVE request: VLC <1.0.6 Multiple issues

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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:30:33 +0200
From: Alex Legler <a3li@...too.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE request: VLC <1.0.6 Multiple issues

Hi,

in case there was no request from upstream yet:

VLC media player suffers from various vulnerabilities when attempting
to parse malformatted or overly long byte streams.

* Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in A/52, DTS and MPEG Audio
  decoders
* Invalid memory access in AVI, ASF, Matroska (MKV)
  demuxers 
* Invalid memory access in XSPF playlist parser
* Inavlid memory access in ZIP archive decompressor
* Heap buffer overflow in RTMP access

http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1003.html

Thanks,
Alex

-- 
Alex Legler | Gentoo Security / Ruby
a3li@...too.org | a3li@...ber.ccc.de

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