Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | vlc security update |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-4203 | First vendor Publication | 2018-05-17 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2018-05-17 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | 1 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 6.8 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 8.6 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| Hans Jerry Illikainen discovered a type conversion vulnerability in the MP4 demuxer of the VLC media player, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed media file is played. This update upgrades VLC in stretch to the new 3.x release series (as security fixes couldn't be sensibly backported to the 2.x series). In addition two packages needed to be rebuild to ensure compatibility with VLC 3; phonon-backend-vlc (0.9.0-2+deb9u1) and goldencheetah (4.0.0~DEV1607-2+deb9u1). VLC in jessie cannot be migrated to version 3 due to incompatible library changes with reverse dependencies and is thus now declared end-of-life for jessie. We recommend to upgrade to stretch or pick a different media player if that's not an option. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.2-0+deb9u1. We recommend that you upgrade your vlc packages. For the detailed security status of vlc please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/vlc |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4203 |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-416 | Use After Free |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2018-12-31 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update. File : debian_DLA-1622.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2018-05-18 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-4203.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2018-05-17 21:19:05 |
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