Updated vlc packages fix security vulnerability
Publication date: 29 Nov 2017Modification date: 29 Nov 2017
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2017-10699
Description
avcodec 2.2.x, as used in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.2.7, allows out-of-bounds heap memory write due to calling memcpy() with a wrong size, leading to a denial of service (application crash) or possibly code execution (CVE-2017-10699). The VLC packages have been updated to version 2.2.8, which includes various security improvements in decoders and demuxers, as well as other bug fixes.
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22095
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21801
- https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;h=d9b31b4e5362c7d764f3e6b23b78aaeb0b8bf868;hb=3cc1d8cba982fc988c2a421e42408bb05d1ba37f
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4045
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10699
SRPMS
5/tainted
- vlc-2.2.8-1.0.mga5.tainted