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Credit:
The information has been provided by Dan Rosenberg.
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Vulnerable Systems:
* VLC media player 1.1.6.1 and earlier
The user should refrain from opening files from untrusted third parties or accessing untrusted remote sites (or disable the VLC browser plugins), until the patch is applied.
Alternatively, the MKV demuxer plugin (libmkv_plugin.*) can be removed manually from the VLC plugin installation directory.
Vendor Status:
VideoLAN had issued an update for this vulnerability
Patch Availability:
http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1102.html
CVE Information:
CVE-2011-0531
Disclosure Timeline:
26 January 2011
Vendor notified
29 January 2011
Fixes delivered by Matroska
30 January 2011
Patches published
Security advisory published
31 January 2011
VLC media player 1.1.7 source released
1 February 2011
VLC media player 1.1.7 binaries released
7 February 2011
CVE ID released CVE-2011-0531
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