[vlc-devel] 20080824 commit: MMS integers handling fixes, including buffer overflow ( Rémi Denis-Courmont )mailing list
http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2008-August/048488.html CVE-2008-3794
VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6i - Mms Protocol Handling Heap Overflow (PoC)
Record summary
CVE-2008-3794 has a selected CVSS score of 6.8; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
Description
Integer signedness error in the mms_ReceiveCommand function in modules/access/mms/mmstu.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6i allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted mmst link with a negative size value, which bypasses a size check and triggers an integer overflow followed by a heap-based buffer overflow.
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBVideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.8.6i - Mms Protocol Handling Heap Overflow (PoC)ExploitDB exploitby g_Not analyzed1 file
References
11GLSA-200809-06Vendor advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-06.xml 4190Third-party advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4190 [oss-security] 20080824 Re: CVE id request: vlcmailing list
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/08/24/3 orange-bat.com
http://www.orange-bat.com/adv/2008/adv.08.24.txt 30806vdb entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30806 1020759vdb entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020759 vlcmediaplayer-memmove-bo(44659)vdb entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44659 nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3794 oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14531vdb entrysignature
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14531 6293exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6293