Out-of-bounds Write Affecting liblivemedia package, versions <2018.10.17-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
9.67% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-LIBLIVEMEDIA-20511666
  • published5 Oct 2026
  • disclosed19 Oct 2018

Introduced: 19 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-4013  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 liblivemedia to version 2018.10.17-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream liblivemedia package and not the liblivemedia package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the HTTP packet-parsing functionality of the LIVE555 RTSP server library version 0.92. A specially crafted packet can cause a stack-based buffer overflow, resulting in code execution. An attacker can send a packet to trigger this vulnerability.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1