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Ubuntu: USN-4131-1 (CVE-2019-13962): VLC vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 18, 2019
Added
Sep 12, 2019
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

lavc_CopyPicture in modules/codec/avcodec/video.c in VideoLAN VLC media player through 3.0.7 has a heap-based buffer over-read because it does not properly validate the width and height.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-vlc
Title
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