Bug 397553

Summary:	media-video/vlc Heap Corruption in VLC TiVo demuxer (CVE-2012-0023)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Michael Harrison <n0idx80>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	aballier, media-video
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1108.html
Whiteboard:	B2 [ebuild]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael Harrison 2012-01-03 22:01:24 UTC

When parsing the header of an invalid TY file, the heap might be corrupted. 

Commit:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commith=7d282fac1cc455b5a5eca2bb56375efcbf879b06


Workarounds:
The user should refrain from opening files from untrusted third parties or accessing untrusted remote sites (or disable the VLC browser plugins), until the patch is applied.

Alternatively, the TY demux plugin (libty_plugin.*) can be removed manually from the VLC plugin installation directory. This will prevent opening of TiVo files.

Comment 1 Michael Harrison 2012-01-03 23:42:36 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 395543 ***