CVE-2008-2147

Name	CVE-2008-2147
Description	Untrusted search path vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC before 0.9.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious library under the modules/ or plugins/ subdirectories of the current working directory.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-1819-1, DTSA-132-1
NVD severity	medium
Debian Bugs	480724

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
vlc (PTS)	stretch (security), stretch	3.0.11-0+deb9u1	fixed
	buster, buster (security)	3.0.11-0+deb10u1	fixed
	bullseye, sid	3.0.11.1-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
vlc	source	etch	0.8.6-svn20061012.debian-5.1+etch3		DSA-1819-1
vlc	source	lenny	0.8.6.c-6+lenny5		DTSA-132-1
vlc	source	(unstable)	0.8.6.e-2.2	low		480724

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1578
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=c7cef4fdd8dd72ce0a45be3cda8ba98df5e83181