Live555CVEs & Vulnerabilities

24 CVEs affecting Live555 products, tracked from the National Vulnerability Database, with CVSS/EPSS scores and exploitation status.

Most Affected Products

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CVE-2025-65407MEDIUM

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.

1 Dec 2025
6.5
CVSS
CVE-2025-65408MEDIUM

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 file.

1 Dec 2025
6.5
CVSS
CVE-2025-65406MEDIUM

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.

1 Dec 2025
6.5
CVSS
CVE-2025-65405MEDIUM

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.

1 Dec 2025
6.5
CVSS
CVE-2025-65404MEDIUM

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.

1 Dec 2025
6.5
CVSS
CVE-2023-37117CRITICAL

A heap-use-after-free vulnerability was found in live555 version 2023.05.10 while handling the SETUP.

12 Jan 2024
9.8
CVSS
CVE-2021-41396HIGH

Live555 through 1.08 does not handle socket connections properly. A huge number of incoming socket connections in a short time invokes the error-handling module, in which a heap-based buffer overflow happens. An attacker can leverage this to launch a DoS attack.

12 Jul 2022
7.5
CVSS
CVE-2021-39283MEDIUM

liveMedia/FramedSource.cpp in Live555 through 1.08 allows an assertion failure and application exit via multiple SETUP and PLAY commands.

18 Aug 2021
5.5
CVSS
CVE-2021-39282HIGH

Live555 through 1.08 has a memory leak in AC3AudioStreamParser for AC3 files.

18 Aug 2021
7.5
CVSS
CVE-2021-38382MEDIUM

Live555 through 1.08 does not handle Matroska and Ogg files properly. Sending two successive RTSP SETUP commands for the same track causes a Use-After-Free and daemon crash.

10 Aug 2021
6.5
CVSS
CVE-2021-38381MEDIUM

Live555 through 1.08 does not handle MPEG-1 or 2 files properly. Sending two successive RTSP SETUP commands for the same track causes a Use-After-Free and daemon crash.

10 Aug 2021
6.5
CVSS
CVE-2021-38380HIGH

Live555 through 1.08 mishandles huge requests for the same MP3 stream, leading to recursion and s stack-based buffer over-read. An attacker can leverage this to launch a DoS attack.

10 Aug 2021
7.5
CVSS
CVE-2021-28899HIGH

Vulnerability in the AC3AudioFileServerMediaSubsession, ADTSAudioFileServerMediaSubsession, and AMRAudioFileServerMediaSubsessionLive OnDemandServerMediaSubsession subclasses in Networks LIVE555 Streaming Media before 2021.3.16.

29 Apr 2021
7.5
CVSS
CVE-2020-24027CRITICAL

In Live Networks, Inc., liblivemedia version 20200625, there is a potential buffer overflow bug in the server handling of a RTSP "PLAY" command, when the command specifies seeking by absolute time.

11 Jan 2021
9.8
CVSS
CVE-2019-15232CRITICAL

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 demultiplexors.

20 Aug 2019
9.8
CVSS
CVE-2019-9215CRITICAL

In Live555 before 2019.02.27, malformed headers lead to invalid memory access in the parseAuthorizationHeader function.

28 Feb 2019
9.8
CVSS
CVE-2019-7733HIGH

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.

11 Feb 2019
7.5
CVSS
CVE-2019-7732HIGH

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.

11 Feb 2019
7.5
CVSS
CVE-2019-7314CRITICAL

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 (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

4 Feb 2019
9.8
CVSS
CVE-2019-6256CRITICAL

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.

14 Jan 2019
9.8
CVSS
CVE-2018-4013CRITICAL

An exploitable code execution vulnerability exists in the HTTP packet-parsing functionality of the LIVE555 RTSP server library version 0.92. A specially crafted packet can cause a stack-based buffer overflow, resulting in code execution. An attacker can send a packet to trigger this vulnerability.

19 Oct 2018
9.8
CVSS
CVE-2013-6934HIGH

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 code via a space character at the beginning of an RTSP message, which triggers an integer underflow, infinite loop, and buffer overflow. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-6933.

23 Jan 2014
7.5
CVSS
CVE-2013-6933HIGH

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 execute arbitrary code via a (1) space or (2) tab character at the beginning of an RTSP message, which triggers an integer underflow, infinite loop, and buffer overflow.

23 Jan 2014
7.5
CVSS
CVE-2007-6036HIGHpoc

The parseRTSPRequestString function in LIVE555 Media Server 2007.11.01 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a short RTSP query, which causes a negative number to be used during memory allocation.

20 Nov 2007
7.1
CVSS
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