Mageia alert MGASA-2015-0095 (vlc)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2015-0095: Updated vlc package fixes security vulnerability 
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Thu, 5 Mar 2015 23:05:53 +0100
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MGASA-2015-0095 - Updated vlc package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 05 Mar 2015
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0095.html

Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 4
CVE: CVE-2014-6440

Description:
Updated vlc packages (2.1.6) are an upgrade with some fixes. Some of the
problems fixed upstream were already fixed by a previous Mageia update
to VLC (see the link to MGASA-2015-0053).

VLC versions before 2.1.5 contain a vulnerability in the transcode module
that may allow a corrupted stream to overflow buffers on the heap. With a
non-malicious input, this could lead to heap corruption and a crash.
However, under the right circumstances, a malicious attacker could
potentially use this vulnerability to hijack program execution, and on
some platforms, execute arbitrary code (CVE-2014-6440)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15384

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6...
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/05/2

- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6440


SRPMS:
- 4/core/vlc-2.1.6-1.0.mga4
- 4/tainted/vlc-2.1.6-1.0.mga4.tainted