Summary
The host is installed with VLC Media Player and is prone to arbitrary code execution vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted MKV file.
Impact Level: Application
Solution
Upgrade to the VLC media player version 1.1.7 or later, For updates refer to http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/
Insight
The flaw is due to an input validation error within the 'MKV_IS_ID' macro in 'modules/demux/mkv/mkv.hpp' of the MKV demuxer, when parsing the MKV file.
Affected
VLC media player version 1.1.6.1 and prior on Linux
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2011-0531 -
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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