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VLC Media Player Multiple Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities - Windows

🗓️ 05 Jun 2017 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AGType 
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VLC Media Player Multiple Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities - Windows. Versions 2.2.4 are affected

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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

CPE = "cpe:/a:videolan:vlc_media_player";

if(description)
{
  script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.811077");
  script_version("2024-02-15T05:05:40+0000");
  script_cve_id("CVE-2017-9301", "CVE-2017-9300");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
  script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-15 05:05:40 +0000 (Thu, 15 Feb 2024)");
  script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
  script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2017-06-06 20:29:00 +0000 (Tue, 06 Jun 2017)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-06-05 14:19:32 +0530 (Mon, 05 Jun 2017)");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
  script_name("VLC Media Player Multiple Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities - Windows");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"VLC media player is prone to multiple denial of service (DoS) vulnerabilities.");

  script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Multiple flaws exist due to an error in
  the 'plugins\codec\libflac_plugin.dll' and
  'plugins\audio_filter\libmpgatofixed32_plugin.dll' scripts while reading a
  crafted file.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow remote
  attackers to remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap corruption and
  application crash or invalid read and application crash) or possibly have
  unspecified other impact.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"VideoLAN VLC media player version 2.2.4 on Windows");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 3.0 or above.");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://code610.blogspot.in/2017/04/multiple-crashes-in-vlc-224.html");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98747");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98746");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Denial of Service");
  script_dependencies("secpod_vlc_media_player_detect_win.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("VLCPlayer/Win/Installed");
  exit(0);
}

include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");

if(!vlcVer = get_app_version(cpe:CPE)){
  exit(0);
}

if(vlcVer == "2.2.4")
{
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vlcVer, fixed_version:"3.0");
  security_message(data:report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);

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