VLC Media Player Stack Overflow Vulnerability (Mar 2009) - Linux

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900531");
  script_version("2025-03-05T05:38:52+0000");
  script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-03-05 05:38:52 +0000 (Wed, 05 Mar 2025)");
  script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-03-26 11:19:12 +0100 (Thu, 26 Mar 2009)");
  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_cve_id("CVE-2009-1045");
  script_name("VLC Media Player Stack Overflow Vulnerability (Mar 2009) - Linux");
  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
  script_family("Buffer overflow");
  script_dependencies("secpod_vlc_media_player_detect_lin.nasl");
  script_mandatory_keys("VLCPlayer/Lin/Ver");

  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8213");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34126");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/49249");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262708");
  script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/03/17/4");

  script_tag(name:"summary", value:"VLC Media Player is prone to a stack overflow vulnerability.");

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

  script_tag(name:"insight", value:"This flaw is due to improper boundary checking in status.xml in
  the web interface by an overly long request.");

  script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation allows the attacker to execute arbitrary
  codes with escalated privileges and cause overflow in stack.");

  script_tag(name:"affected", value:"VLC media player 0.9.8a and prior on Linux.");

  script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 1.0 or later.");

  script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
  script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");

  exit(0);
}

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

if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
  exit(0);

vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];

if(version_is_less_equal(version:vers, test_version:"0.9.8a")) {
  report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"1.0", install_path:path);
  security_message(port:0, data:report);
  exit(0);
}

exit(99);