National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3124
Original release date:08/26/2010
Last revised:07/19/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Untrusted search path vulnerability in bin/winvlc.c in VLC Media Player 1.1.3 and earlier allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse wintab32.dll that is located in the same folder as a .mp3 file.
Description
Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html
'CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path'
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100825 CVE request: VLC media player - DLL preloading vulnerability
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-1.1.git;a=blobdiff;f=bin/winvlc.c;h=ac9b97ca9f5f9ba001f13bf61eb5127a1c1dbcbf;hp=2d09cba320e3b0def7069ce1ebab25d1340161c5;hb=43a31df56c37bd62c691cdbe3c1f11babd164b56;hpb=2d366da738b19f8d761d7084746c6db6f52808c6
Type: Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-2172
Type: Advisory
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100825 Re: CVE request: VLC media player - DLL preloading vulnerability
External Source: EXPLOIT-DB
Name: 14750
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 41107
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12190
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12190
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
