Title: VLC Media Player XSPF Playlist Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
VLC is a cross-platform media player.
VLC is prone to a heap-based memory-corruption vulnerability because it fails to perform adequate checks on user-supplied input. This occurs within the 'demux/playlist/xspf.c' source file when parsing XSPF playlist files. In particular, the value of the 'identifier' tag is used as an index to a heap-based array. An attacker supplying a malicious XSPF file may use this tag to reference arbitrary memory locations and then execute arbitrary code in the context of the application. Failed attacks will cause denial-of-service conditions.
Versions prior to VLC media player 0.9.3 are vulnerable to this issue.
Affected Products:
- VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.2
References:
- Core Security Technologies: VLC media player XSPF Memory Corruption
- VideoLAN: VLC Homepage
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