Double Free Affecting videolan package, versions [3.0.0,3.0.7.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
8.73% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIDEOLAN-2371250
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Jun 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Jun 2019

CVE-2019-12874  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade videolan to version 3.0.7.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Double Free. An issue was discovered in zlib_decompress_extra in modules/demux/mkv/util.cpp in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.x through 3.0.7. The Matroska demuxer, while parsing a malformed MKV file type, has a double free.

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CVSS Scores

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