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FreeBSD: VID-5B218581-9372-11E9-8FC4-5404A68AD561 (CVE-2019-12874): vlc -- Double free in Matroska demuxer

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FreeBSD: VID-5B218581-9372-11E9-8FC4-5404A68AD561 (CVE-2019-12874): vlc -- Double free in Matroska demuxer

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/20/2019
Created
06/25/2019
Added
06/21/2019
Modified
06/21/2019

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-vlc

References

  • CVE-2019-12874

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