CVE-2008-2430 Information

Description

Integer overflow in the Open function in modules/demux/wav.c in VLC Media Player 0.8.6h on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large fmt chunk in a WAV file.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/30601 http://secunia.com/advisories/31317 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-29/advisory/ http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-13.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3976 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493849/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30058 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020429 http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1995/references https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A14344 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A14769