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openSUSE Security Update : vlc (openSUSE-2017-1101)

high Nessus Plugin ID 103589

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for vlc to version 2.2.6 fixes several issues.

This security issue was fixed :

 - CVE-2017-9300: Heap corruption allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted FLAC file (bsc#1041907).

These non-security issues were fixed :

 - Stop depending on libkde4-devel: It's only used to find the install path for kde4, but configure falls back to the correct default for openSUSE anyway (boo#1057736).

 - Disable vnc access module

For the various other fixes introduced by 2.2.6 please see the changelog.

Solution

Update the affected vlc packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1041907

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1057736

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 103589

File Name: openSUSE-2017-1101.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/2/2017

Updated: 11/19/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9300

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-qt-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-nox, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libvlc5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-qt, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libvlccore8, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libvlccore8-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-codec-gstreamer-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-codec-gstreamer, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-nox-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libvlc5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:vlc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9300