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Ubuntu: USN-4074-1 (CVE-2019-5439): VLC vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4074-1 (CVE-2019-5439): VLC vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/13/2019
Created
07/27/2019
Added
07/26/2019
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

A Buffer Overflow in VLC Media Player < 3.0.7 causes a crash which can possibly be further developed into a remote code execution exploit.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-vlc

References

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