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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-19721: VLC: Buffer overflow

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-19721: VLC: Buffer overflow

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/15/2020
Created
06/16/2020
Added
06/15/2020
Modified
06/15/2020

Description

An off-by-one error in the DecodeBlock function in codec/sdl_image.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 3.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted image file. NOTE: this may be related to the SDL_Image product.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-video-vlc

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