KLA11509 Multiple vulnerabilities in VLC media player

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in VLC media player. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service, bypass security restrictions.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. Heap buffer overflow vulnerability in VLC media player can be exploited to cause denial of service;
2. Double free vulnerability in VLC media player can be exploited to bypass security restrictions.

Original advisories

Security Advisory 1901

Related products

VLC-media-player

CVE list

CVE-2019-5439 warning

CVE-2019-12874 critical

Solution

Update to the latest version

Download VLC medial player

Impacts

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

• SB

Security bypass. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing actions restricted by current security settings.

Affected Products

• VLC media player version 3.0.6 and earlier