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CVE-2011-0522 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (vlc), 7 status rows across 7 suites (dapper, hardy, karmic, lucid, maverick, natty, upstream): ignored 3, released 2, needs-triage 1, not-affected 1.
The StripTags function in (1) the USF decoder (modules/codec/subtitles/subsdec.c) and (2) the Text decoder (modules/codec/subtitles/subsusf.c) in VideoLAN VLC Media Player 1.1 before 1.1.6-rc allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a subtitle with an opening "<" without a closing ">" in an MKV file, which triggers heap memory corruption, as demonstrated using refined-australia-blu720p-sample.mkv.