Out-of-Bounds Affecting videolan package, versions [,3.0.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
7.51% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIDEOLAN-2371262
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Jun 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Jun 2019

CVE-2019-5439  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade videolan to version 3.0.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. A Buffer Overflow in VLC Media Player < 3.0.7 causes a crash which can possibly be further developed into a remote code execution exploit.

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