SB2019012105 - Denial of service in LIVE555 Media Server
Published: January 21, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019012105
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-6256)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a call to an incorrect virtual function pointer in the readSocket function in GroupsockHelper.cpp. A remote attacker can cause an RTSPServer crash in handleHTTPCmd_TunnelingPOST, when RTSP-over-HTTP tunneling is supported, via x-sessioncookie HTTP headers in a GET request and a POST request within the same TCP session.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.