Advisories » MGASA-2021-0227

Updated vlc packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 08 Jun 2021
Modification date: 07 Jun 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7 , 8

Description

A remote user could create a specifically crafted file that could trigger some various issues.

It is possible to trigger a remote code execution through a specifically crafted playlist, and tricking the user into interacting with that playlist elements.

It is also possible to trigger read or write buffer overflows with some crafted files or by a MITM attack on the automatic updater

If successful, a malicious third party could trigger either a crash of VLC or an arbitratry code execution with the privileges of the target user.

We updated VLC to latest version available.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28930
• https://www.videolan.org/security/sb-vlc3013.html
• https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.13.html
• https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-3.0/-/raw/master/NEWS
• https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-3.0.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;h=e5dd1855e797179ec3a0bee2cae4ac68705a70cc;hb=41878ff4f2a4b566cf0a1bd15f72037b2be98a18

SRPMS

7/tainted

• vlc-3.0.14-1.mga7.tainted

7/core

• vlc-3.0.14-1.mga7

8/core

• vlc-3.0.14-1.mga8

8/tainted

• vlc-3.0.14-1.mga8.tainted