Bug 450438 (CVE-2013-1868)

Summary:	<media-video/vlc-2.0.5: Buffer overflows in freetype renderer and HTML subtitle parser (CVE-2013-1868)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	kipplasterjoe
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	media-video
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1301.html
Whiteboard:	B2 [glsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description kipplasterjoe 2013-01-05 18:20:04 UTC

Current stable VLC is vulnerable, details see here: http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1301.html

Comment 1 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-01-06 16:21:48 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Current stable VLC is vulnerable, details see here:
> http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1301.html

Thank you for the report.

video herd, may we stabilize =media-video/vlc-2.0.5 ?

Comment 2 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-01-12 16:14:10 UTC

I did amd64 x86 ppc and ppc64.

@Alpha:
please stabilise =media-video/vlc-2.0.5 and media-libs/opus-1.0.1

Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2013-02-08 16:39:32 UTC

alpha stable

Comment 4 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-03-17 12:53:54 UTC

Adding to existing GLSA draft after CVE has been assigned.

Comment 5 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2013-08-31 18:51:49 UTC

CVE-2013-1868 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1868):
  Multiple buffer overflows in VideoLAN VLC media player 2.0.4 and earlier
  allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute
  arbitrary code via vectors related to the (1) freetype renderer and (2) HTML
  subtitle parser.

Comment 6 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2014-11-05 22:09:58 UTC

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201411-01 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201411-01.xml
by GLSA coordinator Sean Amoss (ackle).