CVE-2015-5949 Information

Description

VideoLAN VLC media player 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted 3GP file which triggers the freeing of arbitrary pointers.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00040.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133266/VLC-2.2.1-Arbitrary-Pointer-Dereference.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3342 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/20/8 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/536287/100/0/threaded https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git;a=commitdiff;h=ce91452460a75d7424b165c4dc8db98114c3cbd9;hp=9e12195d3e4316278af1fa4bcb6a705ff27456fd https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-08 https://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2015-009.html