VLC Player Gets Patched for Two High-Severity Bugs

Maintainers of the popular open-source VLC media player patched two high-severity bugs Friday. The flaws were an out-of-bound write vulnerability and a stack-buffer-overflow bug. Developers behind the software, VideoLAN, said the patches were two of 33 fixes being pushed out to the media player a...

MacOS Zero Day Allows Trusted Apps to Run Malicious Code

A researcher has revealed a zero-day flaw in Apple’s Mojave operating system tied to the way the OS verifies apps. The bug allows attackers to sneak past macOS security measures and run whitelisted apps that have been manipulated to run malicious code. macOS researcher Patrick Wardle revealed the...

vlc -- Double free in Matroska demuxer

The VLC project reports: mkv: Fix potential double free...

Updated live, mplayer, vlc packages fix security vulnerability

The updated live, mplayer, vlc packages fix security vulnerabilities: liblivemedia in Live555 before 2019.02.03 mishandles the termination of an RTSP stream after RTP/RTCP-over-RTSP has been set up, which could lead to a Use-After-Free error that causes the RTSP server to crash Segmentation fault...

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:0058-1 Security update for live555

This update fixes two security issues in live555: - CVE-2018-4013: Remote code execution vulnerability bsc1114779 - CVE-2019-6256: Denial of Service issue with RTSP-over-HTTP tunneling via x-sessioncookie HTTP headers boo1121892 This library is statically linked into VLC. However VLC is not...

VLC (European Commission - DIGIT): Access Violation Reading EXPLOITABLE_0228

1 Basic info of application 1.1 Info of application Application NamevVLC media player for Windows Application Versionv4.0.0-dev Otto Chriek Download Address: http://nightlies.videolan.org/ Testing OS: Windows 8 2 Info of test file 2.1 Test file info Normal file name: normal.mkv Normal file type:...

VLC (European Commission - DIGIT): Access Violation Reading in libfaad_plugin

1 Basic info of application 1.1 Info of application Application Name VLC media player for Windows Application Version 4.0.0-dev Otto Chriek Download Address http://nightlies.videolan.org/ Testing OS Windows 8 2 Info of test file 2.1 Test file info Normal file name normal.mkv Normal file type...

VLC (European Commission - DIGIT): VLC 4.0.0 - Stack Buffer Overflow (SEH)

Summary: Incorrect calculation of Buffer Size in rist module for VLC leading to Stack Overflow with SEH chain overwrite. The modules/access/rist module has an incorrect calculation of buffer size giving an attacker the possibility to set the buffer size of a local variable by sending a maliciousl...

Debian DSA-4374-1 : qtbase-opensource-src - security update

Several issues were discovered in qtbase-opensource-src, a cross-platform C++ application framework, which could lead to denial-of-service via application crash. Additionally, this update fixes a problem affecting vlc, where it would start without a GUI. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4374-1] qtbase-opensource-src security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4374-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Sebastien Delafond January 28, 2019 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4374-1] qtbase-opensource-src security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4374-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Sebastien Delafond January 28, 2019 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4374-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Millions of PCs Found Running Outdated Versions of Popular Software

It is 2019, and millions of computers still either have at least one outdated application installed or run outdated operating systems, making themselves vulnerable to online threats and known security vulnerabilities/exploits. Security vendor Avast has released its PC Trends Report 2019 revealing...

VLC (European Commission - DIGIT): Buffer overflow in libavi_plugin memmove() call

Summary: When parsing an invalid AVI file, a buffer overflow might occur. Description: The ReadFrame function in the avi.c file uses a variable iwidthbytes, which is obtained directly from the file. It is a signed integer. It does not do a strict check before the memory operationmemmove, memcpy,...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for live555 (openSUSE-SU-2019:0058-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Security update for live555 (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for live555 Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:0058-1 Rating: moderate References: 1114779 1121892 Cross-References: CVE-2018-4013 CVE-2019-6256 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 openSUSE Leap 15.0 openSUSE Backports SLE-15 An update that fixes two...

Debian DSA-4366-1 : vlc - security update

An integer underflow was discovered in the CAF demuxer of the VLC media player. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4366. The text itself is copyright C Software in the Public Interest, Inc...

[SECURITY] [DSA 4366-1] vlc security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4366-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff January 12, 2019 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-4366-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Apple IntelHD5000 privilege escalation vulnerabilities

Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Executive Summary A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the IntelHD5000 kernel extension when dealing with graphics resources inside of Apple OSX 10.13.4. A library inserted into the VLC media application can cause an out-of-bounds...