Re: Re: CVE request - VLC 2.0.0 to 2.0.8

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

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On 10/04/2013 02:04 AM, Hanno Böck wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 22:32:12 -0600 Kurt Seifried
> <kseifried () redhat com> wrote:
>
> > Sorry forgot to reply. I'm not sure this is CVE worthy. In
> > general crash bugs in services are CVE worthy, but crashes in
> > client software are usually limited to things like email clients
> > or web browsers where there is a high potential for processing
> > untrusted data without much user interaction (e.g. displaying
> > some random email or web page) whre you also have the potential
> > to lose work (so there is an impact).
>
> > In the case of VLC you load a nasty file, it crashes, you don't
> > do it again. There's not really any impact. You don't lose any
> > work.
>
> VLC is used as a browser plugin and can also be embedded in other 
> applications. (though I'm not aware if this can crash the whole
> browser with the modern sandboxing stuff browsers do)

So if someone can test this and report back that'd be great and then
we can deal with the CVE depending on how this plays out.

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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