CVE-2019-12874 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2019-12874 at MITRE

Description

An issue was discovered in zlib_decompress_extra in modules/demux/mkv/util.cpp in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.x through 3.0.7. The Matroska demuxer, while parsing a malformed MKV file type, has a double free.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	9.8
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1138933 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2019:1840-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:42 2023
openSUSE-SU-2019:1897-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:42 2023
openSUSE-SU-2019:1909-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:42 2023
openSUSE-SU-2019:2015-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:49:01 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP1	`libvlc5 >= 3.0.7.1-bp151.5.3.3` `libvlccore9 >= 3.0.7.1-bp151.5.3.3` `vlc >= 3.0.7.1-bp151.5.3.3` `vlc-codec-gstreamer >= 3.0.7.1-bp151.5.3.3` `vlc-devel >= 3.0.7.1-bp151.5.3.3` `vlc-jack >= 3.0.7.1-bp151.5.3.3` `vlc-lang >= 3.0.7.1-bp151.5.3.3` `vlc-noX >= 3.0.7.1-bp151.5.3.3` `vlc-qt >= 3.0.7.1-bp151.5.3.3` `vlc-vdpau >= 3.0.7.1-bp151.5.3.3`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-1897
SUSE Package Hub 15	`aom-tools >= 1.0.0-bp150.2.1` `libaom-devel >= 1.0.0-bp150.2.1` `libaom-devel-doc >= 1.0.0-bp150.2.1` `libaom0 >= 1.0.0-bp150.2.1` `libaom0-64bit >= 1.0.0-bp150.2.1` `libvlc5 >= 3.0.7.1-bp150.2.6.1` `libvlccore9 >= 3.0.7.1-bp150.2.6.1` `vlc >= 3.0.7.1-bp150.2.6.1` `vlc-codec-gstreamer >= 3.0.7.1-bp150.2.6.1` `vlc-devel >= 3.0.7.1-bp150.2.6.1` `vlc-jack >= 3.0.7.1-bp150.2.6.1` `vlc-lang >= 3.0.7.1-bp150.2.6.1` `vlc-noX >= 3.0.7.1-bp150.2.6.1` `vlc-qt >= 3.0.7.1-bp150.2.6.1` `vlc-vdpau >= 3.0.7.1-bp150.2.6.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-2015
openSUSE Leap 15.0	`aom-tools >= 1.0.0-lp150.2.1` `libaom-devel >= 1.0.0-lp150.2.1` `libaom-devel-doc >= 1.0.0-lp150.2.1` `libaom0 >= 1.0.0-lp150.2.1` `libvlc5 >= 3.0.7.1-lp150.8.1` `libvlccore9 >= 3.0.7.1-lp150.8.1` `vlc >= 3.0.7.1-lp150.8.1` `vlc-codec-gstreamer >= 3.0.7.1-lp150.8.1` `vlc-devel >= 3.0.7.1-lp150.8.1` `vlc-jack >= 3.0.7.1-lp150.8.1` `vlc-lang >= 3.0.7.1-lp150.8.1` `vlc-noX >= 3.0.7.1-lp150.8.1` `vlc-qt >= 3.0.7.1-lp150.8.1` `vlc-vdpau >= 3.0.7.1-lp150.8.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-1909
openSUSE Leap 15.1	`libvlc5 >= 3.0.7.1-lp151.6.3.1` `libvlccore9 >= 3.0.7.1-lp151.6.3.1` `vlc >= 3.0.7.1-lp151.6.3.1` `vlc-codec-gstreamer >= 3.0.7.1-lp151.6.3.1` `vlc-devel >= 3.0.7.1-lp151.6.3.1` `vlc-jack >= 3.0.7.1-lp151.6.3.1` `vlc-lang >= 3.0.7.1-lp151.6.3.1` `vlc-noX >= 3.0.7.1-lp151.6.3.1` `vlc-qt >= 3.0.7.1-lp151.6.3.1` `vlc-vdpau >= 3.0.7.1-lp151.6.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-1840
openSUSE Leap 15.2	`libvlc5 >= 3.0.10-lp152.1.3` `libvlccore9 >= 3.0.10-lp152.1.3` `vlc >= 3.0.10-lp152.1.3` `vlc-codec-gstreamer >= 3.0.10-lp152.1.3` `vlc-lang >= 3.0.10-lp152.1.3` `vlc-noX >= 3.0.10-lp152.1.3` `vlc-qt >= 3.0.10-lp152.1.3` `vlc-vdpau >= 3.0.10-lp152.1.3`	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.2 GA libvlc5-3.0.10-lp152.1.1
openSUSE Leap 15.3	`libvlc5 >= 3.0.13-bp153.1.1` `libvlccore9 >= 3.0.13-bp153.1.1` `vlc >= 3.0.13-bp153.1.1` `vlc-codec-gstreamer >= 3.0.13-bp153.1.1` `vlc-lang >= 3.0.13-bp153.1.1` `vlc-noX >= 3.0.13-bp153.1.1` `vlc-qt >= 3.0.13-bp153.1.1` `vlc-vdpau >= 3.0.13-bp153.1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.3 GA libvlc5-3.0.13-bp153.1.1
openSUSE Leap 15.4	`libvlc5 >= 3.0.17.3-bp154.1.49` `libvlccore9 >= 3.0.17.3-bp154.1.49` `vlc >= 3.0.17.3-bp154.1.49` `vlc-codec-gstreamer >= 3.0.17.3-bp154.1.49` `vlc-lang >= 3.0.17.3-bp154.1.49` `vlc-noX >= 3.0.17.3-bp154.1.49` `vlc-qt >= 3.0.17.3-bp154.1.49` `vlc-vdpau >= 3.0.17.3-bp154.1.49`	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.4 GA libvlc5-3.0.17.3-bp154.1.49

Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s)	Source package	State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Package Hub 15	libaom	Released
SUSE Package Hub 15	vlc	Released
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP1	vlc	Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jun 18 22:40:32 2019
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 16:09:05 2025