Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-2484 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Videolan VLC Media Player 0.9.9
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the Win32AddConnection function in modules/access/smb.c in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.9, when running on Microsoft Windows, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long smb URI in a playlist file.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 | |
| OS | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Exploit-Db
description VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.9.9 smb:// URI Stack BOF PoC. CVE-2009-2484. Dos exploit for windows platform file exploits/windows/dos/9029.rb id EDB-ID:9029 last seen 2016-02-01 modified 2009-06-29 platform windows port published 2009-06-29 reporter Trancer source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/9029/ title VideoLAN VLC Media Player 0.9.9 smb:// URI Stack BoF PoC type dos description VideoLAN Client (VLC) Win32 smb:// URI Buffer Overflow. CVE-2009-2484. Local exploit for windows platform id EDB-ID:16678 last seen 2016-02-02 modified 2010-09-20 published 2010-09-20 reporter metasploit source https://www.exploit-db.com/download/16678/ title VideoLAN Client VLC Win32 smb:// URI Buffer Overflow
Metasploit
| description | This module exploits a stack-based buffer overflow in the Win32AddConnection function of the VideoLAN VLC media player. Versions 0.9.9 through 1.0.1 are reportedly affected. This vulnerability is only present in Win32 builds of VLC. This payload was found to work with the windows/exec and windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp payloads. However, the windows/meterpreter/reverse_ord_tcp was found not to work. |
| id | MSF:EXPLOIT/WINDOWS/FILEFORMAT/VLC_SMB_URI |
| last seen | 2020-06-10 |
| modified | 2017-09-14 |
| published | 2010-02-13 |
| references | |
| reporter | Rapid7 |
| source | https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master//modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/vlc_smb_uri.rb |
| title | VideoLAN Client (VLC) Win32 smb:// URI Buffer Overflow |
Oval
| accepted | 2012-11-19T04:00:20.526-05:00 | ||||||||
| class | vulnerability | ||||||||
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| description | Stack-based buffer overflow in the Win32AddConnection function in modules/access/smb.c in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.9, when running on Microsoft Windows, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long smb URI in a playlist file. | ||||||||
| family | windows | ||||||||
| id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14800 | ||||||||
| status | accepted | ||||||||
| submitted | 2012-01-24T15:20:33.178-04:00 | ||||||||
| title | Stack-based buffer overflow in the Win32AddConnection function in modules/access/smb.c in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.9 on Microsoft Windows, | ||||||||
| version | 6 |
Saint
| bid | 35500 |
| description | VideoLAN VLC Media Player SMB Module Win32AddConnection Buffer Overflow |
| id | misc_vlc |
| osvdb | 55509 |
| title | vlc_smb_win32addconnection |
| type | client |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35500
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35558
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1714
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14800
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9029
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e60a9038b13b5eb805a76755efc5c6d5e080180f