The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4074-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the VLC CAF demuxer incorrectly handled certain files. If a user were tricked into     opening a specially-crafted CAF file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause VLC to crash,     resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-19857)

    It was discovered that the VLC Matroska demuxer incorrectly handled certain files. If a user were tricked     into opening a specially-crafted MKV file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause VLC to crash,     resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-12874)

    It was discovered that the VLC MP4 demuxer incorrectly handled certain files. If a user were tricked into     opening a specially-crafted MP4 file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause VLC to crash,     resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-13602)

    It was discovered that the VLC AVI demuxer incorrectly handled certain files. If a user were tricked into     opening a specially-crafted AVI file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause VLC to crash,     resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-5439)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : VLC vulnerabilities (USN-4074-1)

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