31163 : VLC Media Player udp:// URI Handling Format String
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Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2007-01-02	2007-01-03

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2007-0017" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Multiple format string vulnerabilities in (1) the cdio_log_handler function in modules/access/cdda/access.c in the CDDA (libcdda_plugin) plugin, and the (2) cdio_log_handler and (3) vcd_log_handler functions in modules/access/vcdx/access.c in the VCDX (libvcdx_plugin) plugin, in VideoLAN VLC 0.7.0 through 0.8.6 allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in an invalid URI, as demonstrated by a udp://-- URI in an M3U file.

Classification

Location: Local / Remote, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.8.6a or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Security Tracker: 1017464
CVE ID: 2007-0017 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 21852
Secunia Advisory ID: 23592 23910 23971
ISS X-Force ID: 31226
Exploit Database: 3129
Milw0rm: 3129
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2007-0026
Other Solution URL: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/MOAB_Day_2.20070103045559.6753.timor.html
Other Advisory URL: http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-02-01-2007.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-24.xml
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1252
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/18481
Generic Exploit URL: http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5LP030UKAY.html
Vendor URL: http://www.videolan.org/
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.videolan.org/sa0701.html

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Credit

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CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 6.8
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2007-01-03 | Disagree?

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