VLC Media Player USF and Text Subtitles Decoders BOF Vulnerabilities (Windows)

The host is installed with VLC Media Player and is prone to buffer overflow vulnerabilities. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: secpodvlcmediaplayerbofvulnfeb11win.nasl 8174 2017-12-19 12:23:25Z cfischer $ VLC Media Player USF and Text Subtitles Decoders BOF Vulnerabilities Windows Authors: Madhuri ...

CVE-2011-0522

The StripTags function in 1 the USF decoder modules/codec/subtitles/subsdec.c and 2 the Text decoder modules/codec/subtitles/subsusf.c in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 1.1 before 1.1.6-rc allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a subtitle with an opening "" in an MKV file, which trigger...