Name | CVE-2019-12874 |
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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DSA-4459-1 |
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, bookworm (security) | 3.0.21-0+deb12u1 | fixed | |
trixie | 3.0.21-10 | fixed | |
forky, sid | 3.0.22~rc1-1 | 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 | 3.0.7-0+deb9u1 | DSA-4459-1 | ||
vlc | source | (unstable) | 3.0.7-1 |
[jessie] - vlc <end-of-life> (https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00130.html)
https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=81023659c7de5ac2637b4a879195efef50846102