VLC Media Player < 3.0.9 DoS Vulnerability - Mac OS X
🗓️ 19 May 2020 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 89 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vlc -- Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in VLC media player | 1 Apr 202000:00 | – | freebsd | |
| CVE-2019-19721 | 15 May 202017:28 | – | alpinelinux | |
| The vulnerability of the microDNS library in the VideoLAN VLC media player software allows a hacker to induce a service failure or execute arbitrary code. | 13 May 202000:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| CVE-2019-19721 | 15 May 202022:34 | – | circl | |
| VideoLAN VLC media player out-of-bounds read vulnerability | 18 May 202000:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2019-19721 | 15 May 202017:28 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2019-19721 | 15 May 202017:28 | – | cvelist | |
| CVE-2019-19721 | 15 May 202017:28 | – | debiancve | |
| EUVD-2019-9325 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| FreeBSD : vlc -- Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in VLC media player (4a10902f-8a48-11ea-8668-e0d55e2a8bf9) | 30 Apr 202000:00 | – | nessus |
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| videolan | www.videolan.org/security/sb-vlc309.html |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:videolan:vlc_media_player";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.112754");
script_version("2025-09-12T05:38:45+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-12 05:38:45 +0000 (Fri, 12 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2020-05-19 13:02:00 +0000 (Tue, 19 May 2020)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2020-05-19 18:21:00 +0000 (Tue, 19 May 2020)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2019-19721");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("VLC Media Player < 3.0.9 DoS Vulnerability - Mac OS X");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2020 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_vlc_media_player_detect_macosx.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("VLC/Media/Player/MacOSX/Version");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"VLC Media Player is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present
on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"An off-by-one error in the DecodeBlock function in codec/sdl_image.c
allows remote attackers to cause a denial-of-service (memory corruption) via a crafted image file.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to trigger either a crash of VLC.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"VideoLAN VLC Media Player before version 3.0.9 on Mac OS X.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 3.0.9 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.videolan.org/security/sb-vlc309.html");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE))
exit(0);
vers = infos["version"];
path = infos["location"];
if(version_is_less(version:vers, test_version:"3.0.9")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"3.0.9", install_path:path);
security_message(port:0, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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