Integer underflow in VLC Media Player - CVE-2019-13602

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Integer underflow in VLC Media Player - CVE-2019-13602

Published: July 18, 2019 / Updated: July 18, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU19245
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13602
CWE-ID: CWE-191
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attacks on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the "MP4_EIA608_Convert()" function in the "modules/demux/mp4/mp4.c" file. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted .mp4 file, trigger integer underflow and crash the affected application.



Affected software

VLC Media Player
Gentoo Linux
Opensuse
SUSE Linux
vlc (Alpine package)

How to mitigate CVE-2019-13602

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

vlc (Alpine package) - update to 3.0.7.1-r1

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