VLC Media Player Heap Memory Corruption Vulnerability

vendor:

VLC media player

by:

Francis Provencher

7,5

CVSS

HIGH

Heap Memory Corruption

119

CWE

Product Name: VLC media player

Affected Version From: 2.2.1

Affected Version To: 2.2.1

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: vlc_media_player

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: Windows

2016

VLC Media Player Heap Memory Corruption Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of VLC. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. An heap memory corruption occured when VLC parsed an malformed MPEG-4 file that contain an invalid Sample Table and Sample Descriptiion Box.

Mitigation:

Update to the latest version of VLC media player

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

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Application: VLC media player

Platforms: Windows

Versions: Version 2.2.1

Author: Francis Provencher of COSIG

Website: http://www.protekresearchlab.com/

Twitter: @COSIG_

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1) Introduction
2) Report Timeline
3) Technical details
4) POC

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1) Introduction
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VLC media player (commonly known as VLC) is a portable, free and open-source, cross-platform media player andstreaming media server written by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems as also mobile platforms as Android, iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. VLC is also available on App stores such as Apple’s App Store. VLC media player supports many audio and video compression methods and file formats, including DVD-Video, video CD and streaming protocols. It is able to stream media over computer networks and to transcode multimedia files.[10]

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player)

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2) Report Timeline
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2016-01-26: Francis Provencher from Protek Research Lab’s report the issue to VLC;
2016-01-27: Publication of this advisory;

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3) Technical details
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This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of VLC.

User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.

An heap memory corruption occured when VLC parsed an malformed MPEG-4 file that contain an invalid Sample Table and Sample Description (STSD) Atoms size. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the current process.

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4) POC

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http://protekresearchlab.com/exploits/COSIG-2016-03.mp4
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/39353.zip

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