VLC Media Player '.m2v' File Memory Corruption Vulnerability

BID:72106

Info

VLC Media Player '.m2v' File Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 72106
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE: CVE-2014-9598
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jan 16 2015 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 05 2016 09:44PM
Credit: Veysel hatas
Vulnerable: Gentoo Linux
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

VLC Media Player '.m2v' File Memory Corruption Vulnerability

VLC Media Player is prone to a memory-corruption vulnerability.

Attackers can exploit this issue to cause an arbitrary code execution and to crash the application resulting in a denial-of-service condition.

VLC Media Player 2.1.5 is vulnerable.

Exploit / POC

VLC Media Player '.m2v' File Memory Corruption Vulnerability

To exploit this issue, an attacker must entice an unsuspecting user to open a malicious file with the affected application.

Solution / Fix

VLC Media Player '.m2v' File Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently, we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

References

VLC Media Player '.m2v' File Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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