CVE-2019-19721

Summary

CVECVE-2019-19721
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-05-15 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:07:00 UTC
DescriptionAn off-by-one error in the DecodeBlock function in codec/sdl_image.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 3.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted image file. NOTE: this may be related to the SDL_Image product.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787 | CWE-193

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Videolan Vlc Media Player All All All All
Application Videolan Vlc Media Player All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
git.videolan.org Git - vlc/vlc-3.0.git/commit git.videolan.org
GitHub - libsdl-org/SDL_image: Image decoding for many popular formats for Simple Directmedia Layer. MISC hg.libsdl.org Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
721940 – (CVE-2019-19721, VideoLAN-SB-VLC-309) <media-video/vlc-3.0.10: out of bound read (VideoLAN-SB-VLC-309) MISC bugs.gentoo.org Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
VideoLAN Security Advisories MISC www.videolan.org Vendor Advisory
git.videolan.org Git - vlc/vlc-3.0.git/commit MISC git.videolan.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199556 Ubuntu Security Notification for VLC media player Vulnerabilities (USN-6180-1)
  • 501270 Alpine Linux Security Update for vlc
  • 505489 Alpine Linux Security Update for vlc
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