Pardus alert 2011-23 (vlc vlc-firefox)

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[Pardus-security]  [PLSA 2011-23] VLC: Heap Corruption 
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2011-23            security@pardus.org.tr
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      Date: 2011-02-02
  Severity: 3
      Type: Local
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Summary
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Two vulnerabilities have been identified in  VLC  Media  Player,  which 
could be exploited by attackers. 


Description
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CVE-2011-0522: 

stripTags() function when processing malformed data, can run  past  the 
input string termination resulting in a heap corruption. 



Affected packages:

  Pardus 2009:
    vlc, all before 1.1.4-48-26
    vlc-firefox, all before 1.1.4-48-26



Resolution
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There are update(s) for vlc,  vlc-firefox.  You  can  update  them  via 
Package Manager or with a single command from console: 

    pisi up vlc vlc-firefox

References
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  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=16513
  * http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q1/127
  * http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0225

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