Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800076
Category:	Denial of Service
Title:	VLC Media Player Buffer Overflow Vulnerability - Windows
Summary:	VLC Media Player is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability.
Description:	Summary: VLC Media Player is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability. Vulnerability Insight: The flaw is due to a boundary error while parsing ReadRealIndex function in real.c in the Real demuxer plugin. Vulnerability Impact: Successful exploitation allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted .rm file to crash an affected application. Affected Software/OS: VLC media player 0.9.0 through 0.9.7 on Windows (Any). Solution: Upgrade to VLC media player 0.9.8. CVSS Score: 9.3 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5276 BugTraq ID: 32545 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32545 Bugtraq: 20081130 [TKADV2008-013] VLC media player RealMedia Processing Integer Overflow Vulnerability (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498768/100/0/threaded http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200812-24.xml http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-013.txt http://www.osvdb.org/50333 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14793 http://secunia.com/advisories/32942 http://secunia.com/advisories/33315 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4680 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3287
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