Out-of-bounds read in VLC Media Player - CVE-2019-13962
Published: August 8, 2019 / Updated: September 12, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU19983
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-2019-13962
CWE-ID: CWE-125
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) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer over-read because the application does not properly validate the width and height properties in lavc_CopyPicture function in modules/codec/avcodec/video.c. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.
Affected software
VLC Media Player
Gentoo Linux
Opensuse
SUSE Linux
vlc (Alpine package)
Gentoo Linux
Opensuse
SUSE Linux
vlc (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2019-13962
Install update from vendor's website.
VLC Media Player - update to 3.0.8
vlc (Alpine package) - update to 3.0.8-r0
vlc (Alpine package) - update to 3.0.8-r0