oss-security - Re: CVE id request: vlc local privilege escalation

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Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 15:58:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE id request: vlc local privilege escalation

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Name: CVE-2008-2147
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2147
Reference: CONFIRM:http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=c7cef4fdd8dd72ce0a45be3cda8ba98df5e83181
Reference: CONFIRM:http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1578

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC before 0.9.0
allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a malicious library
under the modules/ or plugins/ subdirectories of the current working
directory.

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