oss-security - VideoLAN TiVo Demuxer Duplicate CVEs (CVE-2011-5231 and CVE-2012-0023)

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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:27:20 -0400
From: Sean Amoss <ackle@...too.org>
To: cve@...re.org, "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
CC: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, 
 Gentoo Linux Security Team <security@...too.org>,
 xtophe@...eolan.org
Subject: VideoLAN TiVo Demuxer Duplicate CVEs (CVE-2011-5231 and CVE-2012-0023)

Steve, MITRE, vendors:

It appears that there may be two CVE's for the same issue:

CVE-2011-5231 - Double free vulnerability in the get_chunk_header
function in modules/demux/ty.c in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.0
through 1.1.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TiVo (TY) file.

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-5231

References to http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1108.html

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CVE-2012-0023 - Buffer overflow in VLC TiVo demuxer

CVE Assignment: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/03/12

References http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1108.html in assignment above

Thanks,
Sean
-- 
Sean Amoss
Gentoo Security | GLSA Coordinator
E-Mail	  : ackle@...too.org
GnuPG FP  : E58A AABD DD2D 03AF 0A7A 2F14 1877 72EC E928 357A

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