CVE-2019-12951

Publication date 24 June 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

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

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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

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Package Patch details
smplayer

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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