Vulnerabilities / CVE-2019-12874

critical

CVE-2019-12874

An issue was discovered in zlib_decompress_extra in modules/demux/mkv/ ...

Published Modified CWE 415
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11vlc3.0.7-1
debian 12vlc3.0.7-1
debian 13vlc3.0.7-1
debian 14vlc3.0.7-1
debian 8vlcno fix listed
debian 9vlc3.0.7-0+deb9u1
echovlc3.0.7-1
ubuntu 18.04vlc3.0.7.1-0ubuntu18.04.1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMvlc3.0.7.1-0ubuntu18.04.1
ubuntu 19.04vlc3.0.7.1-0ubuntu19.04.1

References

All 10 references

Vulnerability data compiled from the Trivy vulnerability database (trivy-db, Aqua Security, Apache License 2.0), which aggregates third-party advisories. CVE records are published by The MITRE Corporation under the CVE Terms of Use; CVE is a trademark of MITRE. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. Severity, titles and advisory data from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0), Red Hat security data (CC BY 4.0) and the other sources linked on each entry. Entries may be summarised or re-formatted; the linked original is the authoritative record.