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CVE-2017-8313

Heap out-of-bound read in ParseJSS in VideoLAN VLC before 2.2.5 due to missing check of string termination allows attackers to read data beyond allocated memory and potentially crash the process via a crafted subtitles file.

Published

2017-05-23T21:29:00.307

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 5.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-125

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	videolan	vlc_media_player	≤ 2.2.4	Yes

References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=05b653355ce303ada3b5e0e645ae717fea39186c ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98633 ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10 ([email protected])
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=05b653355ce303ada3b5e0e645ae717fea39186c (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98633 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)