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CVE-2019-18278

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-10-23 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

When executing VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.8 with libqt on Windows, Data from a Faulting Address controls Code Flow starting at libqt_plugin!vlc_entry_license__3_0_0f+0x00000000003b9aba. NOTE: the VideoLAN security team indicates that they have not been contacted, and have no way of reproducing this issue.

Affected products

• VideoLAN VLC: 3.0.8

References

• https://code610.blogspot.com/2019/10/random-bytes-in-vlc-308.html
• https://code610.blogspot.com/2019/10/random-bytes-in-vlc-308.html

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