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Posted on 25 August 2008
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2008-29 security@pardus.org.tr
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Date: 2008-08-25
Severity: 3
Type: Remote
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Summary
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Multiple vulnerabilities have discovered by g_ which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
Description
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First vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow error within the
"Open()" function in modules/demux/tta.c. This can be exploited to cause
a heap-based buffer overflow via specially crafted TTA data. Successful
exploitation may potentially allow execution of arbitrary code.
Also, a heap overflow in MMS Protocol Handling can be exploited from remote.
Affected packages:
Pardus 2008:
vlc, all before 0.8.6i-23-10
vlc-firefox, all before 0.8.6i-23-10
Resolution
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There are update(s) for vlc, vlc-firefox. You can update them via
Package Manager or with a single command from console:
pisi up vlc vlc-firefox
References
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* http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3732
* http://www.orange-bat.com/adv/2008/adv.08.16.txt
* http://www.orange-bat.com/adv/2008/adv.08.24.txt
* http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2008-August/048308.html
* http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2008-August/048504.html
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Pınar Yanardağ
Pardus Security Team
http://security.pardus.org.tr
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