| Name | CVE-2018-19857 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4366-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 915760 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| vlc (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.0.21-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.0.21-0+deb12u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security) | 3.0.22-0+deb12u1 | fixed | |
| trixie | 3.0.21-10 | fixed | |
| trixie (security) | 3.0.22-0+deb13u1 | fixed | |
| forky | 3.0.22-2 | fixed | |
| sid | 3.0.22-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vlc | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| vlc | source | stretch | 3.0.6-0+deb9u1 | DSA-4366-1 | ||
| vlc | source | (unstable) | 3.0.4-4 | 915760 |
[jessie] - vlc <end-of-life> (See https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00130.html)
https://dyntopia.com/advisories/013-vlc
https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=0cc5ea748ee5ff7705dde61ab15dff8f58be39d0