CVE-2017-8310 (GCVE-0-2017-8310)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-23 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:34
VLAI
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Allows attacker to read data beyond allocated memory and potentially crash the process (causing a denial of service)
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98638 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git%3Ba=bl… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
VideoLAN VLC Affected: 2.2.*
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Date Public
2017-04-06 00:00
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Taxonomy of the tags.





Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.



Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.