CVE-2011-0531

Name	CVE-2011-0531
Description	demux/mkv/mkv.hpp in the MKV demuxer plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 1.1.6.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary commands via a crafted MKV (WebM or Matroska) file that triggers memory corruption, related to "class mismatching" and the MKV_IS_ID macro.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-2159-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
vlc (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	2.2.7-1~deb8u1	fixed
	stretch (security)	3.0.12-0+deb9u1	fixed
	stretch (lts), stretch	3.0.21-0+deb9u1	fixed
	buster, buster (lts)	3.0.21-0+deb10u1	fixed
	buster (security)	3.0.20-0+deb10u1	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	3.0.21-0+deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm (security), bookworm	3.0.21-0+deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	3.0.21-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
vlc	source	lenny	0.8.6.h-4+lenny3
vlc	source	squeeze	1.1.3-1squeeze3		DSA-2159-1
vlc	source	(unstable)	1.1.7-1	medium