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    [Solved] VLC 3.0.3 detected as safe

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      GregAlexandre last edited by OLLI_S

      Hi,
      VLC 3.0.3 is known to haves security issues and replaced by 3.0.4.
      Regards.
      Greg.

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        OLLI_S Community Moderator last edited by

        @GregAlexandre OK, then I mark the topic as Solved

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          GregAlexandre @Tom last edited by

          @Tom
          From changelog 3.0.4 to 3.0.5
          "Update numerous 3rd party libraries, including for minor security issues"

          This subject could be close.

          Thanks a lot Tom.

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            Anselm @Tom last edited by

            @Tom Thank you, I updated it yesterday 😉

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              Tom VulnDetect Team Member @Anselm last edited by

              @Anselm VLC 3.0.5 is out

              /Tom
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                Anselm @Anselm last edited by

                @Anselm Correction: OK, i did not see it yesterday at cve.mitre.org using the search. But now i knew why:
                Date Entry Created
                20181205

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                  Anselm @Tom last edited by

                  @Tom OK, i did not see it at cve.mitre.org using the search.

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                    Tom VulnDetect Team Member @Anselm last edited by

                    @Anselm See this:
                    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19857

                    /Tom
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                      Anselm last edited by

                      @Tom says, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4 are not insecure, but 3.0.4 is recommended . I only found an information, that 3.0.1 is insecure.

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                        OLLI_S Community Moderator last edited by

                        Tom, is the issue solved (after you flagged all versions as being "Insecure")?

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                          Tom VulnDetect Team Member last edited by

                          😄

                          Thank you.

                          Yeah, well, as we discussed that, it seems that a guy has found a vuln in 3.0.4.

                          So it is time to flag all versions as being "Insecure" 😞

                          Let's hope a new release of VLC comes out one of the next days.

                          CVE Details is a great site for getting some high level information about the history of a product.

                          However, CVE itself, has seen better days, unfortunately a lot of vulns are assigned CVEs rather late and a lot never receives a CVE.

                          Just look at yesterdays Chrome release, where some of the vulns are "To be allocated [a CVE]". That seems odd for such a significant app as Chrome:
                          https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

                          /Tom
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                            Anselm @Tom last edited by

                            FYI:
                            Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE):

                            https://www.cvedetails.com/version-list/5842/9978/1/Videolan-Vlc-Media-Player.html

                            https://www.cvedetails.com/product/9978/Videolan-Vlc-Media-Player.html?vendor_id=5842

                            https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=VLC

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                              Tom VulnDetect Team Member last edited by

                              Unless some more tangible report comes out, then we will keep flagging 3.0.2, 3.0.3 and 3.0.4 as "OK", with 3.0.4 being the recommended version.

                              But thank you for reporting this, in this time and age you can't just rely on vendors to report all issues, so when you see reports elsewhere, then please post here or send me a chat message and we will investigate.

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                                Anselm last edited by Anselm

                                Maybe a copy paste error?

                                https://portableapps.com/news/2018-09-01--vlc-media-player-portable-3.0.4-released (This version fixes a critical security issue in VLC.)
                                https://portableapps.com/news/2018-05-31--vlc-media-player-portable-3.0.3-released ( This version fixes a critical security issue in VLC.)
                                https://portableapps.com/news/2018-05-06--vlc-media-player-portable-3.0.2-released (This version fixes a critical security issue in VLC. )
                                https://portableapps.com/news/2018-03-21--vlc-media-player-portable-3.0.1-released (This version fixes a critical security issue in VLC.)

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                                  GregAlexandre last edited by

                                  Hi Tom,

                                  When I launched VLC I got a message that a new version was available and fixing security issues. I patched, reported and did not look for anything else: as you pinpointed they are quite good for security and providing information.

                                  I remember that I was a bit surprised to have miss this in security bulletins that I receive: it seems that I was not so bad.☺

                                  I am not alone with this: https://portableapps.com/news/2018-09-01--vlc-media-player-portable-3.0.4-released

                                  I also found that (https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/vlc-3-0-vetinari-released.400558/page-3😞

                                  "The changelog for 3.0.4 doesn't mention security fixes specifically, but the release notes in the built-in updater do:
                                  VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 3.0 "Vetinari".
                                  VLC 3.0.4 is a minor update to VLC 3.0 branch, fixes numerous hardware decoding issues, adds support for AV1 streams and fixes security issues. It also improves the support for numerous formats, and regressions in video quality compared to 2.2.x, in certain cases.""

                                  I am quite sure that I read this somewhere as I was surprised they let regressions and that I had (have) no idea of what is an "AV1 stream".

                                  Hope this helps.
                                  Regards.
                                  Greg.

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                                      Tom VulnDetect Team Member @Anselm last edited by

                                      @Anselm Thank you

                                      /Tom
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                                        Anselm last edited by

                                        FYI:
                                        https://www.videolan.org/security/ "... Please note: The VideoLAN project does not issue security advisories for underlying third party libraries. Please refer to the concerned third parties as appropriate. ..."

                                        BTW, there is a secuirty issue in LIVE555 media streaming library, but this should not influence vlc, see:

                                        https://www.hackread.com/watch-out-for-this-vulnerability-in-vlc-mplayer/ (October 20th, 2018)
                                        https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2018-0684
                                        https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-4013

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                                          Tom VulnDetect Team Member last edited by Tom

                                          Hi Greg,

                                          3.0.4 has actually been out for a while, but when we added the rule it wasn't yet the recommended version - this I have updated now - thank you.

                                          Where did you get the information 3.0.3 is vulnerable?

                                          As you can see, there is (at the time of writing) no official information on the VLC site, and they are usually good at providing this information:
                                          https://www.videolan.org/news.html
                                          https://www.videolan.org/security/

                                          /Tom

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