VLC Media Player Meta-Information Denial of Service Vulnerability - Linux

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
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#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.801430");
  script_version("2024-02-15T05:05:39+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-15 05:05:39 +0000 (Thu, 15 Feb 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2010-08-19 10:23:11 +0200 (Thu, 19 Aug 2010)");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2010-2937");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
  script_name("VLC Media Player Meta-Information Denial of Service Vulnerability - Linux");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1004.html");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42386");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=592669");

  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2010 Greenbone AG");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("secpod_vlc_media_player_detect_lin.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("VLCPlayer/Lin/Ver");
  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation could allow attackers to crash the affected
  application, denying service to legitimate users.");
  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"VLC media player version prior to 1.1.3 on Linux.");
  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to an input validation error when trying to extract
  meta-informations about input media through 'ID3v2' tags.");
  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to the VLC media player version 1.1.3 or later.");
  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"VLC Media Player is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version_unreliable");
  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  exit(0);
}

include("version_func.inc");

vlcVer = get_kb_item("VLCPlayer/Lin/Ver");
if(!vlcVer){
  exit(0);
}

if(version_is_less(version:vlcVer, test_version:"1.1.3")){
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vlcVer, fixed_version:"1.1.3");
  security_message(port: 0, data: report);
}