CVE-2010-3124

Publication date 26 August 2010

Last updated 24 July 2024

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in bin/winvlc.c in VLC Media Player 1.1.3 and earlier allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse wintab32.dll that is located in the same folder as a .mp3 file.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
vlc	10.10 maverick	Not affected
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not affected
	9.10 karmic	Not affected
	9.04 jaunty	Ignored end of life
	8.04 LTS hardy	Not affected
	6.06 LTS dapper	Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

This is Windows-specific

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
vlc	Upstream: http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-1.1.git;a=blobdiff;f=bin/winvlc.c;h=ac9b97ca9f5f9ba001f13bf61eb5127a1c1dbcbf;hp=2d09cba320e3b0def7069ce1ebab25d1340161c5;hb=43a31df56c37bd62c691cdbe3c1f11babd164b56;hpb=2d366da738b19f8d761d7084746c6db6f52808c6

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-3124