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Debian: CVE-2018-19857: vlc -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-19857: vlc -- security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/05/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/13/2019
Modified
02/18/2020

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-vlc

References

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