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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : VLC vulnerabilities (USN-4074-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 127095

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

It was discovered that the VLC CAF demuxer incorrectly handled certain files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted CAF file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause VLC to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-19857)

It was discovered that the VLC Matroska demuxer incorrectly handled certain files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted MKV file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause VLC to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-12874)

It was discovered that the VLC MP4 demuxer incorrectly handled certain files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted MP4 file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause VLC to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2019-13602)

It was discovered that the VLC AVI demuxer incorrectly handled certain files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted AVI file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause VLC to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2019-5439).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4074-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 127095

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4074-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/26/2019

Updated: 10/20/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-12874

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc-data, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc-l10n, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc-plugin-access-extra, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc-plugin-base, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc-plugin-fluidsynth, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc-plugin-jack, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc-plugin-notify, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc-plugin-qt, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc-plugin-samba, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc-plugin-skins2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc-plugin-svg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc-plugin-video-output, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc-plugin-video-splitter, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc-plugin-visualization, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:vlc-plugin-zvbi, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvlc-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvlc-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvlc5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvlccore-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libvlccore9

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/25/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/5/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19857, CVE-2019-12874, CVE-2019-13602, CVE-2019-5439

IAVB: 2019-B-0074-S

USN: 4074-1