VideoLan Player MMS Plugin Stack Buffer Overflow

Strike ID:
E12-4db01
CVSS:
9.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
False Positive:
f
Variants:
12
Year:
2012

Description

This strike exploits a stack buffer overflow in VideoLan VLC Media Player. The vulnerability is due to a failure to sanitize user-supplied input when processing MMS URIs. By enticing a user to open a specially crafted MMS file an attacker could execute arbitrary code on the target system.

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