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Posted on 18 March 2008
Source : packetstormsecurity.org Link
The old buffer-overflow in the subtitles handled by VLC has not been
fully patched in version 0.8.6e, in fact buffer_text2 in ParseSSA is
still unchecked:
if( sscanf( s,
"Dialogue: %[^,],%d:%d:%d.%d,%d:%d:%d.%d,%81920[^
]",
buffer_text2,
The funny thing is that my old proof-of-concept was built just to test
this specific buffer-overflow and in fact it works on the new VLC version
too without modifications 8-)
Instead the SVN version was and is patched from 10 months as I wrote in
my old advisory:
http://aluigi.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt
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Luigi Auriemma
http://aluigi.org
