CVE-2011-0522 Information

Description

The StripTags function in (1) the USF decoder (modules/codec/subtitles/subsdec.c) and (2) the Text decoder (modules/codec/subtitles/subsusf.c) in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 1.1 before 1.1.6-rc allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a subtitle with an opening \ without a closing \ in an MKV file which triggers heap memory corruption as demonstrated using refined-australia-blu720p-sample.mkv.

Reference

http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi?p=vlc/vlc-1.1.git;a=tag;h=bb16813ddb61a53113c71bccc525559405785452 http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2011-January/078607.html http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2011-January/078614.html http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8064 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/7 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/25/9 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46008 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0225 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65029 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A12414