Pardus alert 2011-74 (vlc vlc-firefox)

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Meltem Parmaksız <meltem@pardus.org.tr> 
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[Pardus-security]  [PLSA 2011-74] VLC: Heap Corruption 
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Tue, 3 May 2011 14:14:22 +0300
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2011-74            security@pardus.org.tr
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      Date: 2011-05-03
      Type: Remote
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been fixed  in  vlc,  which  can  be  exploited  by 
malicious people to trigger execution of arbitrary code. 


Description
===========

CVE-2011-1684: 

When parsing some MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14) files, insufficient buffer  size 
might lead to corruption of the heap. 


Affected packages:

  Pardus 2009:
    vlc, all before 1.1.4-51-29
    vlc-firefox, all before 1.1.4-51-29

  Pardus 2011:
    vlc, all before 1.1.9-52-p11
    vlc-devel, all before 1.1.9-52-p11

    vlc-firefox, all before 1.1.9-52-p11

    vlc-libs, all before 1.1.9-52-p11

    vlc-lua, all before 1.1.9-52-p11



Resolution
==========

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

  Pardus 2009:
    pisi up vlc vlc-firefox

  Pardus 2011:
    pisi up vlc vlc-devel vlc-firefox vlc-libs vlc-lua


References
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  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=17747
  * http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1103.html

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