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  • Author: voroskoi
  • Vulnerable: 0.8.6-7
  • Unaffected: 0.8.6-8sayshell1

Some vulnerabilities have been discovered in VLC Media Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system.

  1. Boundary errors in the “ParseMicroDvd()”, “ParseSSA()”, and “ParseVplayer()” functions when handling subtitles can be exploited to cause stack-based buffer overflows.
  2. A format string error in the web interface listening on port 8080/tcp (disabled by default) can be exploited via a specially crafted HTTP request with a “Connection” header value containing format specifiers. Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities allows execution of arbitrary code.

CVEs:

  • There is no CVE entry for these issues.