Medium
Security advisory
libebml before 1.3.6, as used in the MKV module in VideoLAN VLC Media Player binaries before 3.0.3, has a heap-based buffer over-read in EbmlElement::FindNextElement.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-13615
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:22 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
libebml before 1.3.6, as used in the MKV module in VideoLAN VLC Media Player binaries before 3.0.3, has a heap-based buffer over-read in EbmlElement::FindNextElement.
osv:CVE-2019-13615
Complete source record
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