Check Point Advisories

VideoLAN VLC Renamed Zip File Handling Code Execution

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2010-424
Date Published: 2 Aug 2010
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 02 August, 2010
Source:
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description VLC media player is a free multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in VideoLAN's VLC Media Player. The vulnerability is due to an uninitialized pointer dereference while handling zip files renamed as media files. A malicious user can exploit this issue by enticing a user to download and process a malicious file. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will crash the browser application used by the target user, and may allow execution of arbitrary code on the vulnerable system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R80 / R77 / R75

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the VideoLAN VLC Renamed Zip File Handling Code Execution protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name:  Media Player Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information:  VideoLAN VLC renamed zip file handling code execution

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