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CVE-2019-12951

Publication date 24 June 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

An issue was discovered in Mongoose before 6.15. The parse_mqtt() function in mg_mqtt.c has a critical heap-based buffer overflow.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
smplayer 19.04 disco Ignored
18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

alexmurray

smplayer in >= bionic contains an embedded copy of mongoose

ebarretto

smplayer embeds a copy, which is unused in any released version and disabled since 18.5.0~ds1-1

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
smplayer

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H