National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2194

Overview

Integer overflow in the XSPF playlist parser in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.8.5 through 1.1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that trigger a heap-based buffer overflow.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1104.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1104.html

External Source: BID

Name: 48171

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48171

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2257

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2257

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 44892

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/44892

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14774

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14774

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14774

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14774