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CVE-2019-13962

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-07-18 · updated 2026-10-08
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

lavc_CopyPicture in modules/codec/avcodec/video.c in VideoLAN VLC media player through 3.0.7 has a heap-based buffer over-read because it does not properly validate the width and height.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 18.04, 19.04
• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0, 15.0-sp1
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1
• VideoLAN VLC: through 3.0.7

References

• http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-3.0.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2b4f9d0b0e0861f262c90e9b9b94e7d53b864509
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00037.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00040.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00081.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00036.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00046.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109306
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/36
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-02
• https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/22240
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4131-1/

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