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CVE-2019-12874 (GCVE-0-2019-12874)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-06-18 17:53 – Updated: 2024-08-04 23:32
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108882 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4074-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-23 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
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