# CVE-2019-6256: A Denial of Service issue was discovered in the LIVE555 Streaming Media libraries as used in Live555 Media Server 0.93.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-01-14 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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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## Related

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## References

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00037.html
- https://github.com/rgaufman/live555/issues/19
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/22
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4408
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202005-06

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