PT-2014-5325 · Videolan+1 · Vlc Media Player+1

Published 2014-05-14 · Updated 2014-05-15 · CVE-2014-3441

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VLC Media Player version 2.1.3

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, via a crafted .png file. This can be demonstrated by a png in a .wave file.

Recommendations For version 2.1.3, consider avoiding the use of the libpng plugin.dll until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict the handling of .png files within .wave files to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-1643

CVE-2014-3441

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Vlc Media Player

References · 8

• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/126564/VLC-Player-2.1.3-Memory-Corruption.html · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/67315 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/39177 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3441 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3441 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-1643 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3441 · Note
• https://packages.altlinux.org/ru/vuln/CVE-2014-3441 · Note