9.1
CVSSv3

CVE-2018-19857

Published: 05/12/2018 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.4 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.1 | Impact Score: 5.2 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 570
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

It exists 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)

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videolan vlc media player 3.0.4

debian debian linux 9.0

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Several security issues were fixed in VLC ...
Debian Bug report logs - #915760 vlc: CVE-2018-19857 Package: src:vlc; Maintainer for src:vlc is Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multimedia@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 16:24:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: patch, security, upstream Found in v ...