medium
6.8
CWE
119
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2012-3377: Buffer Overflow

First published: Thu Jul 12 2012(Updated: )

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Ogg_DecodePacket function in the OGG demuxer (modules/demux/ogg.c) in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted OGG file.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
VLC media player<=2.0.1
VLC media player=0.1.99a
VLC media player=0.1.99b
VLC media player=0.1.99c
VLC media player=0.1.99d
VLC media player=0.1.99e
VLC media player=0.1.99f
VLC media player=0.1.99g
VLC media player=0.1.99h
VLC media player=0.1.99i
VLC media player=0.2.0
VLC media player=0.2.50
VLC media player=0.2.60
VLC media player=0.2.61
VLC media player=0.2.62
VLC media player=0.2.63
VLC media player=0.2.70
VLC media player=0.2.71
VLC media player=0.2.72
VLC media player=0.2.73
VLC media player=0.2.80
VLC media player=0.2.81
VLC media player=0.2.82
VLC media player=0.2.83
VLC media player=0.2.90
VLC media player=0.2.91
VLC media player=0.2.92
VLC media player=0.3.0
VLC media player=0.3.1
VLC media player=0.4.0
VLC media player=0.4.1
VLC media player=0.4.2
VLC media player=0.4.3
VLC media player=0.4.3-ac3
VLC media player=0.4.4
VLC media player=0.4.5
VLC media player=0.4.6
VLC media player=0.5.0
VLC media player=0.5.1
VLC media player=0.5.2
VLC media player=0.5.3
VLC media player=0.6.0
VLC media player=0.6.1
VLC media player=0.6.2
VLC media player=0.7.0
VLC media player=0.7.1
VLC media player=0.7.2
VLC media player=0.8.0
VLC media player=0.8.1
VLC media player=0.8.2
VLC media player=0.8.4
VLC media player=0.8.4a
VLC media player=0.8.5
VLC media player=0.8.6
VLC media player=0.8.6a
VLC media player=0.8.6b
VLC media player=0.8.6c
VLC media player=0.8.6d
VLC media player=0.8.6e
VLC media player=0.8.6f
VLC media player=0.8.6g
VLC media player=0.8.6h
VLC media player=0.8.6i
VLC media player=0.8.1337
VLC media player=0.9.0
VLC media player=0.9.1
VLC media player=0.9.2
VLC media player=0.9.3
VLC media player=0.9.4
VLC media player=0.9.5
VLC media player=0.9.6
VLC media player=0.9.8a
VLC media player=0.9.9
VLC media player=0.9.9a
VLC media player=0.9.10
VLC media player=1.0.0
VLC media player=1.0.1
VLC media player=1.0.2
VLC media player=1.0.3
VLC media player=1.0.4
VLC media player=1.0.5
VLC media player=1.0.6
VLC media player=1.1.0
VLC media player=1.1.1
VLC media player=1.1.2
VLC media player=1.1.3
VLC media player=1.1.4
VLC media player=1.1.4.1
VLC media player=1.1.5
VLC media player=1.1.6
VLC media player=1.1.6.1
VLC media player=1.1.7
VLC media player=1.1.8
VLC media player=1.1.9
VLC media player=1.1.10
VLC media player=1.1.10.1
VLC media player=1.1.11
VLC media player=1.1.13
VLC media player=2.0.0

Remedy

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.0.git;a=commitdiff;h=16e9e126333fb7acb47d363366fee3deadc8331e

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