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CVE-2018-19857
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-12-05T11:29:05.827 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:50:00.373

Summary

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.

Affected products

videolan — vlc_media_player

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References

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