CVE-2019-12874

Description

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.

References

https://community.tenable.com/s/feed/0D5f200006PbPVqCAN

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4074-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-23

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108882

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00081.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00040.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00037.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00005.html

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=81023659c7de5ac2637b4a879195efef50846102

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3