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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 17:39:45 +0100
From: Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, kseifried@...hat.com
Cc: Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>
Subject: Re: Re: CVE request - VLC 2.0.0 to 2.0.8

On Oct 4, 2013 5:12 PM, "Kurt Seifried" <kseifried@...hat.com> wrote:
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> On 10/04/2013 02:04 AM, Hanno Böck wrote:
> > On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 22:32:12 -0600 Kurt Seifried
> > <kseifried@...hat.com> wrote:
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> >> Sorry forgot to reply. I'm not sure this is CVE worthy. In
> >> general crash bugs in services are CVE worthy, but crashes in
> >> client software are usually limited to things like email clients
> >> or web browsers where there is a high potential for processing
> >> untrusted data without much user interaction (e.g. displaying
> >> some random email or web page) whre you also have the potential
> >> to lose work (so there is an impact).
> >
> >> In the case of VLC you load a nasty file, it crashes, you don't
> >> do it again. There's not really any impact. You don't lose any
> >> work.
> >
> > VLC is used as a browser plugin and can also be embedded in other
> > applications. (though I'm not aware if this can crash the whole
> > browser with the modern sandboxing stuff browsers do)
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> So if someone can test this and report back that'd be great and then
> we can deal with the CVE depending on how this plays out.
>
> - --
> Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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Hi Kurt,

Thanks for the feedback, I'll keep that in mind for the future when
requesting CVE's. I agree this is a minor issue, but because there is an
invalid memory I read I thought it was relevant.

I tested with the browser plugin on the latest Firefox, and while it
crashes the plugin, it doesn't seem to crash the browser.

As I said previously, I will continue to investigate whether I can get some
program control, but for now it's only a measly DoS.

Regards
Pedro

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