| Name | CVE-2023-47359 |
| Description | Videolan VLC prior to version 3.0.20 contains an incorrect offset read that leads to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in function GetPacket() and results in a memory corruption. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3679-1, DSA-5545-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| vlc (PTS) | buster | 3.0.17.4-0+deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 3.0.20-0+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.0.20-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 3.0.20-0+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.0.20-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://0xariana.github.io/blog/real_bugs/vlc/mms
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/commit/27840cb5b20bc4651ba6af01d0a7ae6da17297ef