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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 10:04:21 +0200
From: Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: CVE request - VLC 2.0.0 to 2.0.8
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On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 22:32:12 -0600
Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com> wrote:
> 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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Hanno Böck
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