VLC Media Player Multiple Vulnerabilities

SA48500

CVE-2011-3026, CVE-2012-1126, CVE-2012-1127, CVE-2012-1128, CVE-2012-1129, CVE-2012-1130, CVE-2012-1131, CVE-2012-1132, CVE-2012-1133, CVE-2012-1134, CVE-2012-1135, CVE-2012-1136, CVE-2012-1137, CVE-2012-1138, CVE-2012-1139, CVE-2012-1140, CVE-2012-1141, CVE-2012-1142, CVE-2012-1143, CVE-2012-1144, CVE-2012-1775, CVE-2012-1776

19 Mar 2012

21 Mar 2012

Highly Critical

Vendor Patch

VLC Media Player 2.x

From remote

System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in VLC Media Player, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

1) A boundary error within the "MMSOpen()" function (modules/access/mms/mmstu.c) in the MMS access plugin (libaccess_mms_plugin) can be exploited to cause a stack-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted MMS stream.

2) Some errors within the realrtsp access plugin (libaccess_realrtsp_plugin) when handling Real rtsp streams can be exploited to cause heap-based buffer overflows.

3) The application bundles a vulnerable version of the libpng library.

For more information:
SA48026

4) The application bundles a vulnerable version of the FreeType library.

For more information:
SA48268

Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 2.0.1.

Update to version 2.0.1.

The vendor credits Florent Hochwelker aka TaPiOn.

VLC Media Player (VideoLAN-SA-1201, VideoLAN-SA-1202):
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1201.html
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1202.html

http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS