Description
Format string vulnerability in the httpd_FileCallBack function (network/httpd.c) in VideoLAN VLC 0.8.6d allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the Connection parameter.
Affected products
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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29284 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1543 ↗
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3550 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28233 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14790 ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5519 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27015 ↗
- http://osvdb.org/42208 ↗
- http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/23839 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485488/30/0/threaded ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29766 ↗
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/vlcboffs-adv.txt ↗
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200803-13.xml ↗