VLC Media Player Stack Overflow Vulnerability (Lin-Mar09)

Summary
This host is installed with VLC Media Player and is prone to Stack Overflow Vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation allows the attacker to execute arbitrary codes with escalated privileges and cause overflow in stack. Impact Level: Application
Solution
Upgrade to VLC media player version 1.0 or later, For updates refer to http://www.videolan.org/vlc
Insight
This flaw is due to improper boundary checking in status.xml in the web interface by an overly long request.
Affected
VLC media player 0.9.8a and prior on Linux.
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