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medium 6.5

CVE-2019-5439 json

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.

published 7y ago modified 7d ago also EUVD-2019-15027

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.3%
EPSS 5.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • videolan vlc_media_player 3.0.7
  • vlc Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.0.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5439

  • vlc Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 3.0.7.1-0ubuntu18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5439

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • vlc openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.0.16-1.5
  • vlc Package Hub 15 3.0.7.1-bp150.2.6.1
  • libaom Package Hub 15 1.0.0-bp150.2.1
  • vlc openSUSE Leap 15.0 3.0.7.1-lp150.8.1
  • libaom openSUSE Leap 15.0 1.0.0-lp150.2.1
  • vlc Package Hub 15 SP1 3.0.7.1-bp151.5.3.3
  • vlc openSUSE Leap 15.1 3.0.7.1-lp151.6.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11502-1openSUSE-SU-2019:2015-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1909-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1897-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1840-1

  • vlc Arch Linux 3.0.7.1-1

arch linux advisories AVG-998

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-26-146-05 updated cvss 6.5

ABB Ability Camera Connect

  • ABB Ability Camera Connect <= 1.5.0.14
    affected: vendor fix, mitigation
  • ABB Ability Camera Connect 1.5.0.15
    fixed

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
7d ago

Exploit prediction

5.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a VLC Media Player

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.