CVE-2019-19721

Summary

An off-by-one error in the DecodeBlock function in codec/sdl_image.c in VideoLAN VLC media player before 3.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted image file. NOTE: this may be related to the SDL_Image product.

Impact & exploitability

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://bugs.gentoo.org/721940 ↗

Additional information

• NVD record
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/721940Patch
• https://www.videolan.org/security/Advisory
• http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_image/Advisory
• https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-3.0.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=72afe7ebd8305bf4f5360293b8621cde52ec506b