CVE-2017-8310

2017-05-2321:00:00

checkpoint

www.cve.org

5.9 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

46.9%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "VLC",
    "vendor": "VideoLAN",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "2.2.*"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References

git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3Bf=modules/codec/subsdec.c%3Bh=addd8c71f30d53558fffd19059b374be45cf0f8e%3Bhp=1b4276e299a2a6668047231d29ac705ae93076ba%3Bhb=7cac839692ab79dbfe5e4ebd4c4e37d9a8b1b328%3Bhpb=3477dba3d506de8d95bccef2c6b67861188f6c29

www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899

www.securityfocus.com/bid/98638

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10