Vulnerability CVE-2012-5470
Published: 2012-10-26

Description:
libpng_plugin in VideoLAN VLC media player 2.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted PNG file.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
VLC Player 2.0.3 ReadAV Arbitrary Code Execution
Jean Pascal Pere...
10.10.2012

Type:

CWE-noinfo

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Videolan -> Vlc media player 

 References:
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21889/
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/24/3
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