Security advisory

{
  "id": "8591f16b7743af0833ba1bb4125321a143905d8fd18dbd0eb11e8cc5f4f6f8ed",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-26664",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-26664",
    "summary": "A vulnerability in EbmlTypeDispatcher::send in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.11 allows attackers to trigger a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted .mkv file.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-26664",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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        "CVE-2020-26664"
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/videolan/vlc-3.0",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "d590d61de4001c9ddb155613bbe9b269a9fc9daa"
                }
              ],
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                  {
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                        "introduced": "0"
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                      {
                        "fixed": "3.0.12"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
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              }
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          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.0.11.1",
            "3.0.11",
            "3.0.10",
            "3.0.9.2",
            "3.0.9.1",
            "3.0.9",
            "3.0.8",
            "3.0.7.1-1",
            "3.0.7.1",
            "3.0.7",
            "3.0.6",
            "3.0.5-2",
            "3.0.5-1",
            "3.0.5",
            "3.0.4",
            "3.0.3-1",
            "3.0.3",
            "3.0.2",
            "3.0.1",
            "3.0.0-2",
            "3.0.0.1",
            "3.0.0-1",
            "3.0.0",
            "3.0.0-rc8",
            "3.0.0-rc7",
            "3.0.0-rc6",
            "3.0.0-rc5",
            "3.0.0-rc4",
            "3.0.0-rc3",
            "3.0.0-rc2",
            "3.0.0-rc1",
            "3.0.0-git",
            "2.2.0-git",
            "2.1.0-git",
            "1.3.0-git",
            "1.2.0-pre1",
            "1.1.0-pre1",
            "1.1.0-ff",
            "1.0.0-rc1",
            "1.0.0-pre2",
            "1.0.0-pre1",
            "0.9.0",
            "0.9.0-test3",
            "0.9.0-test2",
            "0.9.0-test1",
            "0.9.0-test0",
            "svn-trunk"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-26664.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:23.251361792Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/06/msg00012.html",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-37",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4834",
        "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/henices/db11664dd45b9f322f8514d182aef5ea/raw/d56940c8bf211992bf4f3309a85bb2b69383e511/CVE-2020-26664.txt"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "10.0"
                  },
                  {
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                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
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        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-26664",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430877,
  "published_at": "2021-01-08T18:15:13.403+00:00"
}