VideoLAN VLC Media Player 2.1.5 - DEP Access Violation

EDB-ID:

35901




Platform:

Windows

Date:

2015-01-26


Title : VLC Player 2.1.5 DEP Access Violation Vulnerability
Discoverer: Veysel HATAS (@muh4f1z)
Web page : www.binarysniper.net
Vendor : VideoLAN VLC Project
Test: Windows XP SP3
Status: Fixed
Severity : High

CVE ID : CVE-2014-9597
<http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2014-9597>
NIST: ​https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-9597
OSVDB ID : 116450 <http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/116450>
VLC Ticket : 13389 <https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/13389>

windbglog : windbglog.txt
<https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/attachment/ticket/13389/windbglog.txt>

Discovered : 24 November 2014
Reported : 26 December 2014
Published : 9 January 2015

Description : VLC Media Player contains a flaw that is triggered as
user-supplied input is not properly sanitized when handling a specially crafted
FLV file <http://www.datafilehost.com/d/9565165f>. This may allow a
context-dependent attacker to corrupt memory and potentially execute
arbitrary code.

# Exploit-DB Mirror: https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/35901-poc.flv
# Exploit-DB Mirror: https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/35901-windbglog.txt