PT-2011-2421 · Videolan · Vlc Media Player

Published 2011-02-07 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2011-0522

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VLC Media Player versions prior to 1.1.6-rc

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a subtitle with an opening "<" without a closing ">" in an MKV file, which triggers heap memory corruption. This is related to the StripTags function in the USF decoder and the Text decoder.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.1.6-rc, update to version 1.1.6-rc or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of subtitles from untrusted sources until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-0522

Affected Products

Vlc Media Player

References · 18

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/46008 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/16108 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://exploit-db.com/exploits/16108 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-0522 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/9 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0522 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-0522 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2011-January/078607.html · Patch
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/7 · Patch
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0225 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-0522 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2011-January/078614.html · Note
• http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/65029 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8064 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12414 · Note