Security Advisory

CVE-2011-0522

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-02-07 20:19:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 21:58:24

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The StripTags function in (1) the USF decoder (modules/codec/subtitles/subsdec.c) and (2) the Text decoder (modules/codec/subtitles/subsusf.c) in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 1.1 before 1.1.6-rc allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a subtitle with an opening "<" without a closing ">" in an MKV file, which triggers heap memory corruption, as demonstrated using refined-australia-blu720p-sample.mkv.

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