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CVE-2018-19857
critical
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.
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4366
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4074-1/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106130
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00081.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00040.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00037.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00005.html