Out-of-bounds Read Affecting videolan package, versions [,3.0.22)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIDEOLAN-15035873
  • published19 Jan 2026
  • disclosed16 Jan 2026
  • creditDr. Ahmed Lekssays

Introduced: 16 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-51602  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade videolan to version 3.0.22 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read via the NetFillBuffer function in mmstu.c when handling a crafted 0x01 response from an MMS server. An attacker can cause a denial-of-service or read unintended memory contents by sending specially crafted network responses.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1