vendor:
VLC media player
by:
jduck
N/A
CVSS
N/A
Buffer Overflow
119
CWE
Product Name: VLC media player
Affected Version From: 2000.9.9
Affected Version To: 1.0.1
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE: 2009-2484
CPE: vlc
Platforms Tested: win
2010
VideoLAN Client (VLC) Win32 smb:// URI Buffer Overflow
This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in the Win32AddConnection function of the VideoLAN VLC media player. Versions 0.9.9 throught 1.0.1 are reportedly affected. This vulnerability is only present in Win32 builds of VLC. This payload was found to work with the windows/exec and windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp payloads. However, the windows/meterpreter/reverse_ord_tcp was found not to work.
Mitigation:
Upgrade to the latest version of VLC media player
