| Name | CVE-2018-19857 |
| Description | The CAF demuxer in modules/demux/caf.c in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.4 may read memory from an uninitialized pointer when processing magic cookies in CAF files, because a ReadKukiChunk() cast converts a return value to an unsigned int even if that value is negative. This could result in a denial of service and/or a potential infoleak. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4366-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 915760 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| vlc (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.2.7-1~deb8u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 3.0.12-0+deb9u1 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 3.0.21-0+deb9u1 | fixed |
| buster, buster (lts) | 3.0.21-0+deb10u1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 3.0.20-0+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 3.0.21-0+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 3.0.21-0+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.0.21-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| vlc | source | wheezy | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| vlc | source | jessie | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| vlc | source | stretch | 3.0.6-0+deb9u1 | | DSA-4366-1 | |
| vlc | source | (unstable) | 3.0.4-4 | | | 915760 |
Notes
[jessie] - vlc <end-of-life> (See https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00130.html)
https://dyntopia.com/advisories/013-vlc
https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commit;h=0cc5ea748ee5ff7705dde61ab15dff8f58be39d0