CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-8310

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-05-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-05-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

Heap out-of-bound read in CreateHtmlSubtitle in VideoLAN VLC 2.2.x due to missing check of string termination allows attackers to read data beyond allocated memory and potentially crash the process (causing a denial of service) via a crafted subtitles file.

Affected configurations

• videolan vlc media player 2.2.0 • videolan vlc media player 2.2.1 • videolan vlc media player 2.2.2 • videolan vlc media player 2.2.3 • videolan vlc media player 2.2.4 • videolan vlc media player 2.2.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References