VideoLAN VLC Media Player 2.1.5 - Write Access Violation

EDB-ID:

35902




Platform:

Windows

Date:

2015-01-26


Title : VLC Player 2.1.5 Write Access Violation Vulnerability
Discoverer: Veysel HATAS (@muh4f1z)
Web page : www.binarysniper.net
Vendor : VideoLAN VLC Project
Test: Windows XP SP3
Status: Fixed
Severity : High

CVE ID : CVE-2014-9598
<http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2014-9598>
NIST: ​https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-9598
OSVDB ID : 116451 <http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/116451>
VLC Ticket : 13390 <https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/13390>

windbglog : windbglog.txt
<https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/attachment/ticket/13390/windbglog.txt>

Discovered : 24 November 2014
Reported : 26 December 2014
Published : 9 January 2015

Description : VLC Media Player contains a flaw that is triggered as
user-supplied input is not properly sanitized when handling a specially crafted
M2V file <http://www.datafilehost.com/d/11daf208>. This may allow a
context-dependent attacker to corrupt memory and potentially execute
arbitrary code.

# Exploit-DB Mirror: https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/35902-poc.m2v
# Exploit-DB Mirror: https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/35902-windbglog.txt