CVE Catalog

CVE-2019-12874

CriticalCVSS 9.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
2.39%

84th percentile - higher than 84% of all known CVEs

Summary

An issue was discovered in zlib_decompress_extra in modules/demux/mkv/util.cpp in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.x through 3.0.7. The Matroska demuxer, while parsing a malformed MKV file type, has a double free.

Risk Assessment

This could lead to arbitrary code execution or application crash, posing a risk to users opening untrusted media files.

Recommendation

Update VLC to a version later than 3.0.7.

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Original NVD description (English source)

An issue was discovered in zlib_decompress_extra in modules/demux/mkv/util.cpp in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.x through 3.0.7. The Matroska demuxer, while parsing a malformed MKV file type, has a double free.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS