CVE-2013-3245

Name	CVE-2013-3245
Description	plugins/demux/libmkv_plugin.dll in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 2.0.7, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted MKV file, possibly involving an integer overflow and out-of-bounds read or heap-based buffer overflow, or an uncaught exception. NOTE: the vendor disputes the severity and claimed vulnerability type of this issue, stating "This PoC crashes VLC, indeed, but does nothing more... this is not an integer overflow error, but an uncaught exception and I doubt that it is exploitable. This uncaught exception makes VLC abort, not execute random code, on my Linux 64bits machine." A PoC posted by the original researcher shows signs of an attacker-controlled out-of-bounds read, but the affected instruction does not involve a register that directly influences control flow
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

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	3.0.20-0+deb9u1	fixed
	buster	3.0.17.4-0+deb10u1	fixed
	buster (security)	3.0.20-0+deb10u1	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	3.0.20-0+deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm (security), bookworm	3.0.20-0+deb12u1	fixed
	trixie	3.0.20-1	fixed
	sid	3.0.20-4	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
vlc	source	(unstable)	2.0.7-1	unimportant

Notes

Harmless crasher
https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=59c9e8309d5b435a2d85c2c9eaae979ba56ccdd9
http://secunia.com/blog/372/
http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2013/More-lies-from-Secunia