CVE - CVE-2013-3245

CVE-ID
CVE-2013-3245	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
DISPUTED plugins/demux/libmkv_plugin.dll in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 2.0.7, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted MKV file, possibly involving an integer overflow and out-of-bounds read or heap-based buffer overflow, or an uncaught exception. NOTE: the vendor disputes the severity and claimed vulnerability type of this issue, stating "This PoC crashes VLC, indeed, but does nothing more... this is not an integer overflow error, but an uncaught exception and I doubt that it is exploitable. This uncaught exception makes VLC abort, not execute random code, on my Linux 64bits machine." A PoC posted by the original researcher shows signs of an attacker-controlled out-of-bounds read, but the affected instruction does not involve a register that directly influences control flow.
References
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BID:61032 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61032 FULLDISC:20130710 Re: VLC media player MKV Parsing POC URL:http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jul/77 FULLDISC:20130710 Re: VLC media player MKV Parsing POC URL:http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jul/79 FULLDISC:20130710 VLC media player MKV Parsing POC URL:http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jul/71 MISC:http://secunia.com/blog/372/ MISC:http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2013/More-lies-from-Secunia SECUNIA:52956 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/52956
Assigning CNA
Flexera Software LLC
Date Record Created
20130422	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20130422)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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