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  1. Bug #195949
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 195949

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 0.8.6.release-0ubuntu4.1

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vlc (0.8.6.release-0ubuntu4.1) feisty-security; urgency=low

  * SECURITY UPDATE:
    - debian/patches/031_CVE-2008-0984.diff (LP: #195949)
     + VLC media player's MPEG-4 file format parser (a.k.a. the MP4 demuxer)
       suffers from an arbitrary memory overwrite vulnerability when using
       crash the player instance.

  * References
    - http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0984
    - http://www.videolan.org/security/sa0802.html

 -- Emanuele Gentili <email address hidden> Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:48:48 +0100