Debian DSA-1004-1 Moderate: VLC Media Player Buffer Overflow Exploit
debian
March 16, 2006
Simon Kilvington discovered that specially crafted PNG images can trigger a heap overflow in libavcodec, the multimedia library of ffmpeg, which may lead to the execution of arbitr...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8.1.svn20050314-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.8.4.debian-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your vlc package.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 1883 b01ca47f88d5b1b3aa67aa9cf8558f79
Size/MD5 checksum: 873 f50e58c336006d091a54374866edc02d
Size/MD5 checksum: 9746520 51ecfbb072315eacf7fcaf250c26f5cb
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 che...
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