Out-of-bounds read in VLC Media Player - CVE-2019-14776

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in DemuxInit() in demux/asf/asf.c in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.7.1 via a crafted .mkv file. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.

Affected software

How to mitigate CVE-2019-14776

External References

• http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git&a=search&h=refs/heads/master&st=commit&s=cve-2019
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00036.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00046.html
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/36
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-02
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4131-1/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4504
• https://www.videolan.org/security/sb-vlc308.html

Related Security Bulletins

• Out-of-bounds read in VideoLAN VLC Media Player
• OpenSUSE Linux update for vlc
• OpenSUSE Linux update for vlc
• Out-of-bounds read in vlc (Alpine package)
• Gentoo update for VLC