CVE-2022-41325

Un desbordamiento de enteros en el módulo VNC en VideoLAN VLC Media Player hasta la versión 3.0.17.4 permite a los atacantes, al engañar a un usuario para que abra una lista de reproducción manipulada se conecte a un servidor VNC fraudulento, bloquear VLC o ejecutar código bajo algunas condiciones.

It was discovered that VLC could be made to read out of bounds when decoding image files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted image file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause VLC to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It was discovered that VLC could be made to write out of bounds when processing H.264 video files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted H.264 video file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause VLC to crash, leading to a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.