Package : vlc Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2005-4048 Debian Bug : 342208
Simon Kilvington discovered that specially crafted PNG images can trigger a heap overflow in libavcodec, the multimedia library of ffmpeg, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The vlc media player links statically against libavcodec.
The old stable distribution (woody) isn't affected by this problem.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.1.svn20050314-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.4.debian-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your vlc package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------
