Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting videolan package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
41.81% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIDEOLAN-2371216
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-19857  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for videolan.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access of Uninitialized Pointer. The CAF demuxer in modules/demux/caf.c in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.4 may read memory from an uninitialized pointer when processing magic cookies in CAF files, because a ReadKukiChunk() cast converts a return value to an unsigned int even if that value is negative. This could result in a denial of service and/or a potential infoleak.

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