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CVE-2019-12874

critical

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.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4074-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-23

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

https://community.tenable.com/s/feed/0D5f200006PbPVqCAN

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108882

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=81023659c7de5ac2637b4a879195efef50846102

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-06-18

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02534