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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2728-1 vlc -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

03 Aug 2021

Affected Packages:

vlc

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-25801, CVE-2021-25802, CVE-2021-25803, CVE-2021-25804.

More information:

It was discovered that there were a number of issues in VideoLAN (aka 'vlc', a popular video and multimedia player:

• CVE-2021-25801

  A buffer overflow vulnerability in the __Parse_indx component allowed attackers to cause an out-of-bounds read via a crafted .avi file.

• CVE-2021-25802

  A buffer overflow vulnerability in the AVI_ExtractSubtitle component could have allowed attackers to cause an out-of-bounds read via a crafted .avi file.

• CVE-2021-25803

  A buffer overflow vulnerability in the vlc_input_attachment_New component allowed attackers to cause an out-of-bounds read via a specially-crafted .avi file.

• CVE-2021-25804

  A NULL-pointer dereference in "Open" in avi.c can result in a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

For Debian 9 Stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.11-0+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your vlc packages.

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