Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 14, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2019-6256

Description

A Denial of Service issue was discovered in the LIVE555 Streaming Media libraries as used in Live555 Media Server 0.93. It can cause an RTSPServer crash in handleHTTPCmd_TunnelingPOST, when RTSP-over-HTTP tunneling is supported, via x-sessioncookie HTTP headers in a GET request and a POST request within the same TCP session. This occurs because of a call to an incorrect virtual function pointer in the readSocket function in GroupsockHelper.cpp.

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Affected products

Rgzs/Live555inferred
Range: <= 0.93
Live555/Media Server2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:live555:live555_media_server:0.93:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:live555:live555_media_server:0.93:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: 0.93
Debian/linux2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Live555/Streaming Mediallm-fuzzy
Range: 0.93
osv-coords2 versions
pkg:rpm/opensuse/live555&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.0 pkg:rpm/suse/live555&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2015
< 2018.12.14-bp150.3.3.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2018.12.14-bp150.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2018.12.14-bp150.3.3.1

Patches

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References

github.com/rgaufman/live555/issues/19nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00037.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/22nvdIssue TrackingMailing ListThird Party Advisory
www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4408nvdThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-06nvd

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