Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-5470 - Buffer Errors vulnerability in Videolan VLC Media Player 2.0.3
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
libpng_plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 2.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted PNG file. Per http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1203.html When parsing an invalid PNG image file, a buffer overflow might occur.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 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 | VLC Player <= 2.0.3 - (.png) ReadAV Crash PoC. CVE-2012-5470. Dos exploit for windows platform |
| file | exploits/windows/dos/21889.pl |
| id | EDB-ID:21889 |
| last seen | 2016-02-02 |
| modified | 2012-10-11 |
| platform | windows |
| port | |
| published | 2012-10-11 |
| reporter | Jean Pascal Pereira |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/21889/ |
| title | VLC Player <= 2.0.3 - .png ReadAV Crash PoC |
| type | dos |
Nessus
| NASL family | Gentoo Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | GENTOO_GLSA-201411-01.NASL |
| description | The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201411-01 (VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in VLC. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted media file using VLC, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 78879 |
| published | 2014-11-06 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2016 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/78879 |
| title | GLSA-201411-01 : VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities |
| code | |
Oval
| accepted | 2012-12-10T04:00:09.404-05:00 | ||||||||
| class | vulnerability | ||||||||
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| description | libpng_plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 2.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted PNG file. | ||||||||
| family | windows | ||||||||
| id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15540 | ||||||||
| status | accepted | ||||||||
| submitted | 2012-10-31T13:22:27.825-04:00 | ||||||||
| title | Vulnerability in libpng_plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 2.0.3 | ||||||||
| version | 5 |
Seebug
| bulletinFamily | exploit |
| description | CVE ID:CVE-2012-5470 VideoLAN VLC media player是一款媒体播放程序。 VideoLAN VLC媒体播放器libpng_plugin插件存在安全漏洞，允许攻击者构建特制的PNG文件，诱使用户解析，可使应用程序崩溃。 0 VLC media player 2.0.3 厂商解决方案 VideoLAN VLC media player 2.0.4已经修复此漏洞，建议用户下载使用： http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.0.4.html |
| id | SSV:60447 |
| last seen | 2017-11-19 |
| modified | 2012-10-30 |
| published | 2012-10-30 |
| reporter | Root |
| title | VLC Media Player 读访问冲突任意代码执行漏洞(CVE-2012-5470) |