USN-4131-1

It was discovered that VLC incorrectly handled certain media files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause VLC to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / vlc

Package

Name: vlc
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/vlc@3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

3.0.8-0ubuntu18.04.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.2.6-6

2.2.6-6build1

2.2.7-1

2.2.8-1

2.2.8-1ubuntu4

2.2.8-2

3.*

3.0.0~rc1-1ubuntu1

3.0.0~rc1-1ubuntu3

3.0.0~rc2-1ubuntu1

3.0.0~rc2-2ubuntu1

3.0.0~rc2-2ubuntu2

3.0.0~rc4-1ubuntu1

3.0.0~rc7-2ubuntu1

3.0.0~rc8-1ubuntu1

3.0.0-1ubuntu1

3.0.1-1ubuntu5

3.0.1-2ubuntu1

3.0.1-2ubuntu2

3.0.1-3

3.0.1-3build1

3.0.2-0ubuntu0.1

3.0.3-1-1ubuntu1

3.0.4-1ubuntu0.2

3.0.7.1-0ubuntu18.04.1

Ecosystem specific

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