CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8312
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
Heap out-of-bound read in ParseJSS in VideoLAN VLC due to missing check of string length allows attackers to read heap uninitialized data via a crafted subtitles file.
Affected configurations
• videolan vlc media player (< 2.2.6)
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3Bf=modules/demux/subtitle.c%3Bh=5e4fcdb7f25b2819f5441156c7c0ea2a7d112ca3%3Bhp=2a75fbfb7c3f56b24b2e4498bbb8fe0aa2575974%3Bhb=611398fc8d32f3fe4331f60b220c52ba3557beaa%3Bhpb=075bc7169b05b004fa0250e4a4ce5516b05487a9 git.videolan.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98631 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3Bf=modules/demux/subtitle.c%3Bh=5e4fcdb7f25b2819f5441156c7c0ea2a7d112ca3%3Bhp=2a75fbfb7c3f56b24b2e4498bbb8fe0aa2575974%3Bhb=611398fc8d32f3fe4331f60b220c52ba3557beaa%3Bhpb=075bc7169b05b004fa0250e4a4ce5516b05487a9 git.videolan.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98631 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10 Third Party Advisory