Bug#772896: browser-plugin-vlc: VLC Web Plugin is outdated and vulnerable

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Fri Dec 12 00:56:46 UTC 2014


Package: browser-plugin-vlc
Version: 2.0.6-4
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream
Justification: user security hole

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_campaign=plugincheck-update

says that the VLC Web Plugin is outdated and vulnerable.

Note: about:plugins confirms that this is the Debian one
(/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages browser-plugin-vlc depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                2.19-13
ii  libcairo2            1.14.0-2.1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6         2.5.2-2
ii  libgcc1              1:4.9.2-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.42.1-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.25-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.36.8-3
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0    1.36.8-3
ii  libstdc++6           4.9.2-5
ii  libvlc5              2.2.0~rc2-1
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.2-3
ii  libx11-xcb1          2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxcb1              1.10-3+b1
ii  vlc                  2.2.0~rc2-1

browser-plugin-vlc recommends no packages.

browser-plugin-vlc suggests no packages.

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