National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-0984

Overview

The MP4 demuxer (mp4.c) for VLC media player 0.8.6d and earlier, as used in Miro Player 1.1 and earlier, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory and execute arbitrary code via a malformed MP4 file.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0802.html

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0802.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1019510

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019510

External Source: BID

Name: 28007

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28007

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080227 CORE-2008-0130: VLC media player chunk context validation error

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/488841/100/0/threaded

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-0682

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/0682

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2147

Hyperlink:http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2147

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29153

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29153

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29122

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29122

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20080227 CORE-2008-0130: VLC media player chunk context validation error

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-February/060481.html

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200803-13

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1543

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29766

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29766

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 29284

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/29284