Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : VLC media player vulnerabilities (USN-6180-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6180-1 advisory. It was discovered that VLC could be made to read out of bounds when decoding image files. If a user were tricked into...

SUSE CVE-2020-13428

A heap-based buffer overflow in the hxxxAnnexBtoxVC function in modules/packetizer/hxxxnal.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 3.0.11 for macOS/iOS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or execute arbitrary code via a crafted H.264 Annex-B video .avi for example...

Arbtirary Code Execution

vlc is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution. A heap-based buffer overflow in the hxxxAnnexBtoxVC function in modules/packetizer/hxxxnal.c allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service application crash or execute arbitrary code via a malicious H.264 Annex-B video .avi for example file...