cve-2017-8311
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-23 21:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:34
Severity ?
Summary
Potential heap based buffer overflow in ParseJSS in VideoLAN VLC before 2.2.5 due to skipping NULL terminator in an input string allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted subtitles file.
References
cve@checkpoint.comhttp://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=775de716add17322f24b476439f903a829446eb6
cve@checkpoint.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899
cve@checkpoint.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98634
cve@checkpoint.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10
cve@checkpoint.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44514/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=775de716add17322f24b476439f903a829446eb6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98634
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44514/
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