Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.108606
Category:	General
Title:	VLC Media Player Multiple Vulnerabilities (Jun 2019) - Linux
Summary:	VLC media player is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.
Description:	Summary: VLC media player is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Insight: Multiple flaws exist due to: - An out of bounds write error in faad2 library. - Multiple out-of-band read errors. - Multiple heap overflow errors. - A NULL pointer dereference error. - Multiple use-after-free issues. - An integer underflow error. - Multiple integer overflow errors. - A division by zero error. - A floating point exception error. - An infinite loop error. Vulnerability Impact: Successful exploitation will allow attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected application, cause denial of service or launch other attacks. Affected Software/OS: VideoLAN VLC media player version before 3.0.7 on Linux. Solution: Upgrade to version 3.0.7 or later. Please see the references for more information. CVSS Score: 7.5 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5439 BugTraq ID: 108769 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108769 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-23 https://hackerone.com/reports/484398 SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2019:1840 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00005.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2019:1897 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00037.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2019:1909 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00040.html SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2019:2015 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00081.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/4074-1/ Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-12874 BugTraq ID: 108882 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108882 http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=81023659c7de5ac2637b4a879195efef50846102
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