Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-3941 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in multiple products

CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

HIGH

local

low complexity

videolan

canonical

CWE-119

nessus

NVD

Published: 2016-04-18

Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

Buffer overflow in the AStreamPeekStream function in input/stream.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted wav file, related to "seek across EOF."

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Videolan Videolan VLC Media Player - Videolan VLC Media Player 0.1.99A Videolan VLC Media Player 0.1.99B Videolan VLC Media Player 0.1.99C Videolan VLC Media Player 0.1.99D Videolan VLC Media Player 0.1.99E Videolan VLC Media Player 0.1.99F Videolan VLC Media Player 0.1.99G Videolan VLC Media Player 0.1.99H Videolan VLC Media Player 0.1.99I Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.0 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.50 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.60 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.61 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.62 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.63 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.70 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.71 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.72 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.73 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.80 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.81 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.82 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.83 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.90 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.91 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.2.92 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.3.0 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.3.1 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.4.0 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.4.1 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.4.2 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.4.3 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.4.3-Ac3 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.4.4 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.4.5 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.4.6 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.5.0 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.5.1 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.5.1A Videolan VLC Media Player 0.5.2 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.5.3 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.6.0 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.6.1 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.6.2 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.7.0 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.7.1 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.7.2 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.0 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.1 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.2 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.4 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.4A Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.5 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.6 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.6A Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.6B Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.6C Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.6D Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.6E Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.6F Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.6G Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.6H Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.6I Videolan VLC Media Player 0.8.1337 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.9.0 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.9.1 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.9.2 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.9.3 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.9.4 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.9.5 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.9.6 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.9.8A Videolan VLC Media Player 0.9.9 Videolan VLC Media Player 0.9.9A Videolan VLC Media Player 0.9.10 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.0.0 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.0.1 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.0.2 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.0.3 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.0.4 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.0.5 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.0.6 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.0 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.1 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.2 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.3 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.4 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.4.1 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.5 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.6 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.6.1 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.7 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.8 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.9 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.10 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.10.1 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.11 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.12 Videolan VLC Media Player 1.1.13 Videolan VLC Media Player 2.0.0 Videolan VLC Media Player 2.0.1 Videolan VLC Media Player 2.0.2 Videolan VLC Media Player 2.0.3 Videolan VLC Media Player 2.0.4 Videolan VLC Media Player 2.0.5 Videolan VLC Media Player 2.0.6 Videolan VLC Media Player 2.0.7 Videolan VLC Media Player 2.0.8 Videolan VLC Media Player 2.0.9 Videolan VLC Media Player 2.1.0 Videolan VLC Media Player 2.1.1 Videolan VLC Media Player 2.1.2 Videolan VLC Media Player 2.1.3 Videolan VLC Media Player 2.1.5	116
OS	Canonical Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04	1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-119 - Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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.

Nessus

NASL family	SuSE Local Security Checks
NASL id	OPENSUSE-2016-755.NASL
description	This update for vlc to version 2.1.6 fixes the following issues : These CVE were fixed : - CVE-2016-5108: Reject invalid QuickTime IMA files (boo#984382). - CVE-2016-3941: Heap overflow in processing wav files (boo#973354). These security issues without were fixed : - Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter. - Fix buffer overflow in updater. - Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder. - Fix NULL pointer dereference in DMO decoder. - Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer. - Fix SRTP integer overflow. - Fix potential crash in zip access. - Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer.
last seen	2020-06-05
modified	2016-06-23
plugin id	91773
published	2016-06-23
reporter	This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
source	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91773
title	openSUSE Security Update : vlc (openSUSE-2016-755)

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Nessus

References