Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2012-239 |
Date Published: | 30 Jul 2012 |
Severity: | Medium |
Last Updated: | Sunday 14 February, 2016 |
Source: | |
Industry Reference: | CVE-2012-1775 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | |
Vulnerability Description | A stack buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in VLC Media Player. The vulnerability is due to insufficient bounds checking in the MMS access plugin while copying a hostname into a stack buffer. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by convincing a target user to open a specially crafted URL with an affected version of VLC Media Player. Successful exploitation will allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target machine with the security privileges of the VLC Media Player process. |
This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.
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This protection's log will contain the following information:
Attack Name: Media Player Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: VideoLAN VLC Media Player MMS plugin stack buffer overflow