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CERTA-2008-AVI-295

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De multiples vulnérabilités dans VLC permettent de réaliser un déni de service ou d'exécuter du code arbitraire à distance.

Description

VLC intègre des versions vulnérables de GnuTLS, de libgcrypt (CVE-2008-1948, CVE-2008-1949 et CVE-2008-1950) et de libxml2 (CVE-2007-6284) pour Windows et Mac OS X.

L'exploitation de ces vulnérabilités (traitées par les avis CERTA-2008-AVI-022 et CERTA-2008-AVI-262) permet de réaliser un déni de service ou d'exécuter du code arbitraire à distance.

Solution

Mettre à jour VLC en version 0.8.6h.

VLC versions 0.8.6g et antérieures.

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{
  "$ref": "https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/openapi.json",
  "affected_systems": [],
  "affected_systems_content": "\u003cP\u003e\u003cSPAN class=\"textit\"\u003eVLC\u003c/SPAN\u003e versions 0.8.6g et  ant\u00e9rieures.\u003c/P\u003e",
  "content": "## Description\n\nVLC int\u00e8gre des versions vuln\u00e9rables de GnuTLS, de libgcrypt\n(CVE-2008-1948, CVE-2008-1949 et CVE-2008-1950) et de libxml2\n(CVE-2007-6284) pour Windows et Mac OS X.\n\nL\u0027exploitation de ces vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9s (trait\u00e9es par les avis\nCERTA-2008-AVI-022 et CERTA-2008-AVI-262) permet de r\u00e9aliser un d\u00e9ni de\nservice ou d\u0027ex\u00e9cuter du code arbitraire \u00e0 distance.\n\n## Solution\n\nMettre \u00e0 jour VLC en version 0.8.6h.\n",
  "cves": [
    {
      "name": "CVE-2007-6284",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-6284"
    },
    {
      "name": "CVE-2008-1948",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1948"
    },
    {
      "name": "CVE-2008-1949",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1949"
    },
    {
      "name": "CVE-2008-1950",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1950"
    }
  ],
  "links": [
    {
      "title": "T\u00e9l\u00e9chargement de VLC :",
      "url": "http://www.videolan.org/vlc/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Avis CERTA-2008-AVI-022 :",
      "url": "http://www.certa.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTA-2008-AVI-022/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Avis CERTA-2008-AVI-262 :",
      "url": "http://www.certa.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTA-2008-AVI-262/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Notes de changement de version VLC 0.8.6h :",
      "url": "http://wiki.videolan.org/Changelog/0.8.6h"
    }
  ],
  "reference": "CERTA-2008-AVI-295",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "description": "version initiale.",
      "revision_date": "2008-06-09T00:00:00.000000"
    }
  ],
  "risks": [
    {
      "description": "D\u00e9ni de service \u00e0 distance"
    },
    {
      "description": "Ex\u00e9cution de code arbitraire \u00e0 distance"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "De multiples vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9s dans \u003cspan class=\"textit\"\u003eVLC\u003c/span\u003e\npermettent de r\u00e9aliser un d\u00e9ni de service ou d\u0027ex\u00e9cuter du code\narbitraire \u00e0 distance.\n",
  "title": "Multiples vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9s dans VLC",
  "vendor_advisories": [
    {
      "published_at": null,
      "title": "Notes de version VLC 0.8.6h",
      "url": null
    }
  ]
}



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