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GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2015-95

GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2015-95
Advisory Published
Vulnetix · Advisory published March 5, 2015
Updated vlc packages (2.1.6) are an upgrade with some fixes. Some of the problems fixed upstream were already fixed by a previous Mageia update to VLC (see the link to MGASA-2015-0053). VLC versions before 2.1.5 contain a vulnerability in the transcode module that may allow a corrupted stream to overflow buffers on the heap. With a non-malicious input, this could lead to heap corruption and a crash. However, under the right circumstances, a malicious attacker could potentially use this vulnerability to hijack program execution, and on some platforms, execute arbitrary code (CVE-2014-6440)

Affected Products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Mageialdetect-lst0 (affected), 0.1.346-1.mga5 (unaffected)
Mageiavlc0 (affected), 2.1.6-1.0.mga4 (unaffected), 2.1.6-1.0.mga4.tainted (unaffected), 0 (affected), 0 (affected), 2.1.6-1.0.mga4.tainted (unaffected), 2.1.6-1.0.mga4 (unaffected), 0 (affected)
Mageiafglrx0 (affected), 15.200.1046-1.1.mga5.nonfree (unaffected)
Mageiakmod-fglrx0 (affected), 15.200.1046-1.1.mga5.nonfree (unaffected)

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