VLC < 3.0.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 128080

Synopsis

The remote Windows host contains a media player that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of VLC media player installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 3.0.8. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

- An integer underflow condition exists in the modules/demux/mp4/mp4.c component of VLC Player. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by supplying a crafted mp4 file, to cause a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code (CVE-2019-13602).

- A heap-based buffer overflow condition exists in the modules/codec/avcodec/video.c component of VLC Player due to improper sanitization of the width and height values. A remote attacker can exploit this, by supplying a specially crafted video file, to cause a denial of service condition or the execution of arbitrary code (CVE-2019-13962).

- A NULL pointer de-reference flaw exists in the ASF Demuxer component of VLC Player. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by supplying crafted input, to cause a denial of service condition when the application attempts to read or write memory with a NULL pointer (CVE-2019-14534).

Solution

Upgrade to VLC version 3.0.8 or later.

See Also

http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 128080

File Name: vlc_3_0_8.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 8/23/2019

Updated: 5/8/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-13962

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:videolan:vlc_media_player

Required KB Items: SMB/VLC/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/19/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13602, CVE-2019-13962, CVE-2019-14437, CVE-2019-14438, CVE-2019-14498, CVE-2019-14533, CVE-2019-14534, CVE-2019-14535, CVE-2019-14776, CVE-2019-14777, CVE-2019-14778, CVE-2019-14970

BID: 109158, 109306

IAVB: 2019-B-0074-S