vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-26664: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 8, 2021
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A vulnerability in EbmlTypeDispatcher::send in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.11 allows attackers to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted .mkv file.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-vlc
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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