397553 – media-video/vlc Heap Corruption in VLC TiVo demuxer (CVE-2012-0023)

Bug 397553 - media-video/vlc Heap Corruption in VLC TiVo demuxer (CVE-2012-0023)

Summary: media-video/vlc Heap Corruption in VLC TiVo demuxer (CVE-2012-0023)

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 395543

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	http://www.videolan.org/security/sa11...
Whiteboard:	B2 [ebuild]
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Blocks:

Reported:	2012-01-03 22:01 UTC by Michael Harrison
Modified:	2012-01-03 23:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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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 ***