Live555 is a narrowly scoped media streaming library and server platform that, despite limited product diversification, occupies a prominent position in the streaming media ecosystem through its use in a wide range of RTSP-based video delivery systems. Vulnerabilities affecting the vendor skew strongly toward critical-severity outcomes, reflecting the memory-safety and buffer-handling demands of real-time multimedia processing; the recurring weakness classes—use-after-free, out-of-bounds writes, classic buffer overflows, and memory-management flaws—are characteristic of native C++ codebases that parse untrusted streaming protocols. The exposure concentrates in the core streaming library and media server products, which are deeply embedded in surveillance systems, media players, IoT devices, and broadcast infrastructure, meaning a single flaw can propagate downstream across a large installed base. Defenders should treat this vendor's security updates as critical for any system handling networked media streams; live exploitation activity and severity counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Live555 over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (24 CVEs).
24 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 | Jan 23, 2014 | 7.5 | 36 | NO | NO |
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 | Oct 19, 2018 | 9.8 | 35 | NO | NO |
CVE-2019-9215CRITICAL In Live555 before 2019.02.27, malformed headers lead to invalid memory access in the parseAuthorizationHeader function. | Feb 28, 2019 | 9.8 | 31 | NO | NO |
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 cau | Feb 4, 2019 | 9.8 | 31 | NO | NO |
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 | Jan 23, 2014 | 7.5 | 30 | NO | NO |
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 | Jan 11, 2021 | 9.8 | 29 | NO | NO |
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 b | Aug 20, 2019 | 9.8 | 29 | NO | NO |
CVE-2007-6036HIGH 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 | Nov 20, 2007 | 7.1 | 28 | NO | YES |
CVE-2023-37117CRITICAL A heap-use-after-free vulnerability was found in live555 version 2023.05.10 while handling the SETUP. | Jan 12, 2024 | 9.8 | 24 | NO | NO |
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-ba | Jul 12, 2022 | 7.5 | 24 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (24 CVEs).
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