DSA-2159-1 vlc -- missing input sanitising

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2159-1 vlc -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

10 Feb 2011

Affected Packages:

vlc

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-0531.

More information:

Dan Rosenberg discovered that insufficient input validation in VLC's processing of Matroska/WebM containers could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.3-1squeeze3.

The version of vlc in the oldstable distribution (lenny) is affected by further issues and will be addressed in a followup DSA.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.7-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your vlc packages.