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Bug 486902 (CVE-2013-4388)

Summary: <media-video/vlc-2.0.9: buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2013-4388)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: media-video
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/01/1
Whiteboard: B2 [glsa]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 476436    

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-10-03 19:06:42 UTC
From ${URL} :

I have found a security issue in vlc 2.0.8 which was reported to VLC
team and fixed in both 2.0.9 and 2.1.0 (as "Fix buffer overflow in the
mp4a packetizer").

Here are the commit log and changelog:

* http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=9794ec1cd268c04c8bca13a5fae15df6594dff3e
* http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS



@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please say explicitly if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Sergey Popov gentoo-dev 2013-10-16 09:25:24 UTC
*** Bug 488086 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Sergey Popov gentoo-dev 2013-12-10 08:39:27 UTC
@maintainers, ping! Is 2.0.9 ready for stabilization?
Comment 3 Yury German Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2014-06-18 00:09:21 UTC
Added to an existing GLSA request.
Comment 4 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2014-11-05 22:10:22 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).