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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3598-1 vlc -- security update

Date Reported:

07 Jun 2016

Affected Packages:

vlc

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-5108.

More information:

Patrick Coleman discovered that missing input sanitising in the ADPCM decoder of the VLC media player may result in the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed media file is opened.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.4-1~deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your vlc packages.