Bug#473057: vlc: CVE-2008-0073 code execution via crafted rtsp stream

[Nico Golde]

Package: vlc
Severity: grave
Tags: security patch

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for vlc.

CVE-2008-0073CVE-2008-0073[0]:
| Array index error in the sdpplin_parse function in
| input/libreal/sdpplin.c in xine-lib 1.1.10.1 allows remote RTSP
| servers to execute arbitrary code via a large streamid SDP parameter.

It turned out that vlc is also using that code in
modules/access/rtsp/real_sdpplin.c

Find a patch for the above issue on:
http://hg.debian.org/hg/xine-lib/xine-lib?cmd=changeset;node=12cb075fba8ea09813fc35e0c731d2a64265b637;style=raw

If you fix this vulnerability please also include the CVE id
in your changelog entry.

For further information:
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0073CVE-2008-0073

Kind regards
Nico

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