CVE-2017-8310
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-23 21:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:34
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@checkpoint.comhttp://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3Bf=modules/codec/subsdec.c%3Bh=addd8c71f30d53558fffd19059b374be45cf0f8e%3Bhp=1b4276e299a2a6668047231d29ac705ae93076ba%3Bhb=7cac839692ab79dbfe5e4ebd4c4e37d9a8b1b328%3Bhpb=3477dba3d506de8d95bccef2c6b67861188f6c29
cve@checkpoint.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899
cve@checkpoint.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98638Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@checkpoint.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3Bf=modules/codec/subsdec.c%3Bh=addd8c71f30d53558fffd19059b374be45cf0f8e%3Bhp=1b4276e299a2a6668047231d29ac705ae93076ba%3Bhb=7cac839692ab79dbfe5e4ebd4c4e37d9a8b1b328%3Bhpb=3477dba3d506de8d95bccef2c6b67861188f6c29
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98638Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10
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