Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions Affecting liblivemedia package, versions <2018.11.26-1
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- published5 Oct 2026
- disclosed14 Jan 2019
Introduced: 14 Jan 2019
CVE-2019-6256 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:14 liblivemedia to version 2018.11.26-1 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.
A Denial of Service issue was discovered in the LIVE555 Streaming Media libraries as used in Live555 Media Server 0.93. It can cause an RTSPServer crash in handleHTTPCmd_TunnelingPOST, when RTSP-over-HTTP tunneling is supported, via x-sessioncookie HTTP headers in a GET request and a POST request within the same TCP session. This occurs because of a call to an incorrect virtual function pointer in the readSocket function in GroupsockHelper.cpp.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-6256
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/22
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4408
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00037.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-06
- https://github.com/rgaufman/live555/issues/19
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-6256