| 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, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | high (attack range: remote) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| liblivemedia (PTS) | jessie | 2014.01.13-1 | fixed |
| jessie (security) | 2014.01.13-1+deb8u3 | fixed | |
| stretch (security), stretch | 2016.11.28-1+deb9u2 | fixed | |
| buster, sid | 2018.11.26-1.1 | fixed | |
| mplayer (PTS) | stretch | 2:1.3.0-6 | fixed |
| buster, sid | 2:1.3.0-8 | fixed | |
| mplayer2 (PTS) | jessie | 2.0-728-g2c378c7-4 | fixed |
| vlc (PTS) | jessie (security), jessie | 2.2.7-1~deb8u1 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch | 3.0.6-0+deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster, sid | 3.0.6-1 | 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)