CVE-2013-6934

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2014-01-23 21:55:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-09-12 12:00:00

Affected Software

LIVE555 Streaming Media 2013-11-26

2013-11-26

VideoLAN VLC Media Player

References

http://isecpartners.github.io/fuzzing/vulnerabilities/2013/12/30/vlc-vulnerability.html

Exploit, Third Party Advisory

http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/public/changelog.txt

Vendor Advisory

65139

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

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