Candidate: CVE-2011-0522
PublicDate: 2011-02-07 21:00:00 UTC
References: 
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0522
 http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2011-January/078607.html
Description:
 The StripTags function in (1) the USF decoder
 (modules/codec/subtitles/subsdec.c) and (2) the Text decoder
 (modules/codec/subtitles/subsusf.c) in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 1.1 before
 1.1.6-rc allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a subtitle
 with an opening "<" without a closing ">" in an MKV file, which triggers
 heap memory corruption, as demonstrated using
 refined-australia-blu720p-sample.mkv.
Ubuntu-Description: 
Notes: 
Bugs: 
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to: 
CVSS: 

Patches_vlc:
 upstream: http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi?p=vlc/vlc-1.1.git;a=commit;h=dc14617f39c03bbe80c3cc4f92799dca840966eb
upstream_vlc: needs-triage
dapper_vlc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
hardy_vlc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
karmic_vlc: ignored (reached end-of-life)
lucid_vlc: released (1.0.6-1ubuntu1.4)
maverick_vlc: released (1.1.4-1ubuntu1.3)
natty_vlc: not-affected (1.1.6-1ubuntu1)
devel_vlc: not-affected (1.1.6-1ubuntu1)