glsa-201908-23.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201908-23">
  <title>VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in VLC, the worst of which
    could result in the arbitrary execution of code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">vlc</product>
  <announced>2019-08-18</announced>
  <revised count="1">2019-08-18</revised>
  <bug>688642</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-video/vlc" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.0.7</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.0.7</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>VLC is a cross-platform media player and streaming server.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VLC. Please review the
      CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>Remote attackers, by enticing a user to execute a specially crafted
      media file, could cause a Denial of Service condition or possibly execute
      arbitrary code.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All VLC users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-video/vlc-3.0.7"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12874">CVE-2019-12874</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5439">CVE-2019-5439</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2019-08-01T21:30:30Z">b-man</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2019-08-18T02:26:26Z">b-man</metadata>
</glsa>