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Live555 Streaming Media: vulnerabilities and CVEs

Live555 Streaming Media has 14 published vulnerabilities, 6 of them in the last 12 months. 3 are rated critical and 0 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.

CVEs14
Last 12 months6
Critical3
Actively exploited0

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CVESeverityEPSSActive exploitationPublishedDescription
CVE-2026-38998Medium (6.5)0.44%—Sep 9, 2026
A use-after-free in the SocketDescriptor::tcpReadHandler1 function (liveMedia/RTPInterface.cpp) of LIVE555 Streaming Media (version 2026.02.26) allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via sending a series of…
CVE-2025-65407Medium (6.5)0.30%—Dec 1, 2025
A use-after-free in the MPEG1or2Demux::newElementaryStream() function of Live555 Streaming Media v2018.09.02 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted MPEG Program stream.
CVE-2025-65408Medium (6.5)0.30%—Dec 1, 2025
A NULL pointer dereference in the ADTSAudioFileServerMediaSubsession::createNewRTPSink() function of Live555 Streaming Media v2018.09.02 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted ADTS…
CVE-2025-65406Medium (6.5)0.33%—Dec 1, 2025
A heap overflow in the MatroskaFile::createRTPSinkForTrackNumber() function of Live555 Streaming Media v2018.09.02 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted MKV file.
CVE-2025-65405Medium (6.5)0.30%—Dec 1, 2025
A use-after-free in the ADTSAudioFileSource::samplingFrequency() function of Live555 Streaming Media v2018.09.02 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted ADTS/AAC file.
CVE-2025-65404Medium (6.5)0.33%—Dec 1, 2025
A buffer overflow in the getSideInfo2() function of Live555 Streaming Media v2018.09.02 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted MP3 stream.
CVE-2021-28899High (7.5)1.1%—Apr 29, 2021
Vulnerability in the AC3AudioFileServerMediaSubsession, ADTSAudioFileServerMediaSubsession, and AMRAudioFileServerMediaSubsessionLive OnDemandServerMediaSubsession subclasses in Networks LIVE555 Streaming Media before…
CVE-2019-15232Critical (9.8)1.7%—Aug 20, 2019
Live555 before 2019.08.16 has a Use-After-Free because GenericMediaServer::createNewClientSessionWithId can generate the same client session ID in succession, which is mishandled by the MPEG1or2 and Matroska file…
CVE-2019-9215Critical (9.8)2.2%—Feb 28, 2019
In Live555 before 2019.02.27, malformed headers lead to invalid memory access in the parseAuthorizationHeader function.
CVE-2019-7733High (7.5)1.6%—Feb 11, 2019
In Live555 0.95, there is a buffer overflow via a large integer in a Content-Length HTTP header because handleRequestBytes has an unrestricted memmove.
CVE-2019-7732High (7.5)1.4%—Feb 11, 2019
In Live555 0.95, a setup packet can cause a memory leak leading to DoS because, when there are multiple instances of a single field (username, realm, nonce, uri, or response), only the last instance can ever be freed.
CVE-2019-7314Critical (9.8)3.2%—Feb 4, 2019
liblivemedia in Live555 before 2019.02.03 mishandles the termination of an RTSP stream after RTP/RTCP-over-RTSP has been set up, which could lead to a Use-After-Free error that causes the RTSP server to crash…
CVE-2013-6934High (7.5)28%—Jan 23, 2014
The parseRTSPRequestString function in Live Networks Live555 Streaming Media 2013.11.26, as used in VideoLAN VLC Media Player, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary…
CVE-2013-6933High (7.5)17%—Jan 23, 2014
The parseRTSPRequestString function in Live Networks Live555 Streaming Media 2011.08.13 through 2013.11.25, as used in VideoLAN VLC Media Player, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly…

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