Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package vlc (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-VLC-612660
- published24 Jul 2019
- disclosed16 Jul 2019
Introduced: 16 Jul 2019
CVE-2019-13615 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vlc package and not the vlc package as distributed by Ubuntu.
libebml before 1.3.6, as used in the MKV module in VideoLAN VLC Media Player binaries before 3.0.3, has a heap-based buffer over-read in EbmlElement::FindNextElement.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-13615
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-13615
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-13615
- https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/commit/05beb69ba60acce09f73ed491bb76f332849c3a0
- https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/commit/b66ca475be967547af9a3784e720fbbacd381be6
- https://github.com/Matroska-Org/libebml/compare/release-1.3.5...release-1.3.6
- https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/22474
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109304
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4073-1/