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FKIE_CVE-2017-8310

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-05-23 21:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:26

Severity

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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

URL	Tags
cve@checkpoint.com	http://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.com	http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899
cve@checkpoint.com	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98638	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@checkpoint.com	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://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-364da2661108	http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98638	Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
videolan	vlc_media_player	2.2.0
videolan	vlc_media_player	2.2.1
videolan	vlc_media_player	2.2.2
videolan	vlc_media_player	2.2.3
videolan	vlc_media_player	2.2.4
videolan	vlc_media_player	2.2.5

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T01:26:10.037",
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CVE-2017-8310 (GCVE-0-2017-8310)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-23 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:34

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Allows attacker to read data beyond allocated memory and potentially crash the process (causing a denial of service)

Assigner

checkpoint mitre root

References

4 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

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
VideoLAN	VLC	Affected: 2.2.*

Date Public

2017-04-06 00:00

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

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