CVE-2024-46461

NameCVE-2024-46461
DescriptionVLC media player 3.0.20 and earlier is vulnerable to denial of service through an integer overflow which could be triggered with a maliciously crafted mms stream (heap based overflow). If successful, a malicious third party could trigger either a crash of VLC or an arbitrary code execution with the target user's privileges.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-5707-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
vlc (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye3.0.21-0+deb11u1fixed
bookworm, bookworm (security)3.0.21-0+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie3.0.21-2fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
vlcsourcebullseye3.0.21-0+deb11u1DSA-5707-1
vlcsourcebookworm3.0.21-0+deb12u1DSA-5707-1
vlcsource(unstable)3.0.21-1

Notes

https://www.videolan.org/security/sb-vlc3021.html
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/commit/e7f98f3632d793c3921bfe72595721af191e670e (v3.0.21)

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