CVE-2007-6683 Information

Description

The browser plugin in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via (1) the :demuxdump-file option in a filename in a playlist or (2) a EXTVLCOPT statement in an MP3 file possibly an argument injection vulnerability.

Reference

http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2007-December/037726.html http://osvdb.org/42205 http://osvdb.org/42206 http://secunia.com/advisories/29284 http://secunia.com/advisories/29766 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28712 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A14619 https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/23197 https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1371