CVE-2019-12874 — Double Free in VLC Media Player

CWE-415 — Double Free7 documents6 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.3%
top 19.88%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Videolan VLC Media Player
Timeline
PublishedJun 18
Latest updateMay 24

Description

An issue was discovered in zlib_decompress_extra in modules/demux/mkv/util.cpp in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.x through 3.0.7. The Matroska demuxer, while parsing a malformed MKV file type, has a double free.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianvideolan/vlc_media_player< 3.0.7-1+3
▶NVDvideolan/vlc_media_player3.0.0 — 3.0.7

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-hjrf-5287-583q: An issue was discovered in zlib_decompress_extra in modules/demux/mkv/util↗2022-05-24
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OSV
vlc vulnerabilities↗2019-07-25
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OSV
CVE-2019-12874: An issue was discovered in zlib_decompress_extra in modules/demux/mkv/util↗2019-06-18
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CVEList
CVE-2019-12874: An issue was discovered in zlib_decompress_extra in modules/demux/mkv/util↗2019-06-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
VLC vulnerabilities↗2019-07-25
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Debian
CVE-2019-12874: vlc - An issue was discovered in zlib_decompress_extra in modules/demux/mkv/util.cpp i...↗2019
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