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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.69555
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2211-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'vlc' package(s) announced via the DSA-2211-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'vlc' package(s) announced via the DSA-2211-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Ricardo Narvaja discovered that missing input sanitising in VLC, a multimedia player and streamer, could lead to the execution of arbitrary code if a user is tricked into opening a malformed media file.

This update also provides updated packages for oldstable (lenny) for vulnerabilities, which have already been addressed in Debian stable (squeeze), either during the freeze or in DSA-2159 (CVE-2010-0522, CVE-2010-1441, CVE-2010-1442 and CVE-2011-0531).

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.6.h-4+lenny3.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.3-1squeeze4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.8-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your vlc packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'vlc' package(s) on Debian 5, Debian 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

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-2010-3275
BugTraq ID: 47012
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47012
Bugtraq: 20110323 CORE-2011-0208: VLC Vulnerabilities handling .AMV and .NSV files (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517150/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-2211 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2211
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17048
http://www.coresecurity.com/content/vlc-vulnerabilities-amv-nsv-files
http://www.metasploit.com/modules/exploit/windows/browser/vlc_amv
http://www.osvdb.org/71277
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14718
http://securitytracker.com/id?1025250
http://secunia.com/advisories/43826
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8162
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0759
XForce ISS Database: vlcmediaplayer-amv-bo(66259)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66259
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2010-3276
http://www.osvdb.org/71278
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14873
XForce ISS Database: vlcmediaplayer-nsv-bo(66260)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66260
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