Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions Affecting liblivemedia package, versions <2018.11.26-1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-LIBLIVEMEDIA-581545
  • published14 Jan 2019
  • disclosed14 Jan 2019

Introduced: 14 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-6256  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-755  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:20.04 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 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.