Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting vlc package, versions <3.0.4-4
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-VLC-520179
- published5 Dec 2018
- disclosed5 Dec 2018
Introduced: 5 Dec 2018
CVE-2018-19857 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 vlc to version 3.0.4-4 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vlc package and not the vlc package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.
The CAF demuxer in modules/demux/caf.c in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.4 may read memory from an uninitialized pointer when processing magic cookies in CAF files, because a ReadKukiChunk() cast converts a return value to an unsigned int even if that value is negative. This could result in a denial of service and/or a potential infoleak.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19857
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4366
- https://dyntopia.com/advisories/013-vlc
- https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=0cc5ea748ee5ff7705dde61ab15dff8f58be39d0
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106130
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00037.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00040.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00081.html
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-19857
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4074-1/
- https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0cc5ea748ee5ff7705dde61ab15dff8f58be39d0