A vulnerability has been found in VideoLAN VLC Media Player up to 2.0.8 (Multimedia Player Software) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component ASF File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability.

The weakness was shared 10/01/2013 by Pedro Ribeiro as CVE request - VLC 2.0.0 to 2.0.8 as not defined mailinglist post (oss-sec). The advisory is available at seclists.org. The vendor was not involved in the coordination of the public release. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

A public exploit has been developed by Pedro Ribeiro in ASF File and been published immediately after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at github.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The advisory illustrates:

I have not been able to obtain any program control so far, so at the moment this only crashes VLC. However someone more skilled might be able to control it.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Multimedia Player Software

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• VideoLAN

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• VLC Media Player

Version

• 2.0.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2
• 2.0.3
• 2.0.4
• 2.0.5
• 2.0.6
• 2.0.7
• 2.0.8

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• open-source

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