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) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
liblivemedia (PTS) | stretch, stretch (security) | 2016.11.28-1+deb9u2 | fixed |
buster | 2018.11.26-1.1 | fixed | |
mplayer (PTS) | stretch | 2:1.3.0-6 | fixed |
buster | 2:1.3.0-8 | fixed | |
bullseye | 2:1.4+ds1-1 | fixed | |
sid | 2:1.4+ds1-3 | fixed | |
vlc (PTS) | stretch | 3.0.11-0+deb9u1 | fixed |
stretch (security) | 3.0.11-0+deb9u2 | fixed | |
buster, buster (security) | 3.0.12-0+deb10u1 | fixed | |
bullseye | 3.0.16-1 | fixed | |
bookworm, sid | 3.0.17.4-2 | 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)