CVE 2019-5439

A Buffer Overflow in VLC Media Player < 3.0.7 causes a crash which can possibly be further developed into a remote code execution exploit.

Related bugs and status

CVE-2019-5439 (Candidate) is related to these bugs:

Bug #1812480: [SRU] Update to bugfix release 3.0.8 in Bionic

Summary				In	Importance	Status
	1812480	[SRU] Update to bugfix release 3.0.8 in Bionic		vlc (Ubuntu)	Undecided	Fix Released

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