CVE-2019-12874

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    CVE-2019-12874

    Published: 18 Jun 2019Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=81023659c7de5ac2637b4a879195efef50846102, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00005.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00037.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00040.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00081.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108882, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4074-1/, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-23

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 8d432b090e08f141ce9156dc728afbed4636301b
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.0.7
    3.0.6
    3.0.5-2
    3.0.5-1
    3.0.5
    3.0.4
    3.0.3-1
    3.0.3
    3.0.2
    3.0.1
    3.0.0-2
    3.0.0.1
    3.0.0-1
    3.0.0
    3.0.0-rc8
    3.0.0-rc7
    3.0.0-rc6
    3.0.0-rc5
    3.0.0-rc4
    3.0.0-rc3
    3.0.0-rc2
    3.0.0-rc1
    3.0.0-git

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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