Name | CVE-2013-6934 |
Description | The parseRTSPRequestString function in Live Networks Live555 Streaming Media 2013.11.26, as used in VideoLAN VLC Media Player, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a space character at the beginning of an RTSP message, which triggers an integer underflow, infinite loop, and buffer overflow. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-6933. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
mplayer (PTS) | bullseye | 2:1.4+ds1-1+deb11u1 | fixed |
bookworm | 2:1.5+svn38408-1 | fixed | |
trixie | 2:1.5+svn38674-2 | fixed | |
forky, sid | 2:1.5+svn38674-3 | fixed | |
vlc (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.0.21-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
bookworm, bookworm (security) | 3.0.21-0+deb12u1 | fixed | |
trixie | 3.0.21-10 | fixed | |
forky, sid | 3.0.21-11 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
liblivemedia | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | |||
mplayer | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | |||
mplayer2 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | |||
vlc | source | (unstable) | (not affected) |
- liblivemedia <not-affected> (incomplete patch never applied)
- vlc <not-affected> (never built against liblivemedia with incomplete patch)
- mplayer <not-affected> (never built against liblivemedia with incomplete patch)
- mplayer2 <not-affected> (b-d's on liblivemedia but doesn't actually build the support for it)