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CVE-2019-9215

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-02-28 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

In Live555 before 2019.02.27, malformed headers lead to invalid memory access in the parseAuthorizationHeader function.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Live555 Streaming Media: before 2019.02.27 — fixed in 2019.02.27
• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0, 15.0-sp1
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1, 15.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Live555 Streaming Media 2019.02.27. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00044.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00024.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00009.html
• http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/public/changelog.txt
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00022.html
• https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/22
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-06
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4408
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00044.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00024.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00009.html
• http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/public/changelog.txt

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