fkie_cve-2017-8311
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2017-05-23 21:29
Modified
2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
videolan vlc_media_player *


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{
  "configurations": [
    {
      "nodes": [
        {
          "cpeMatch": [
            {
              "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "matchCriteriaId": "60281829-AD27-4A95-B1A4-3D6008627406",
              "versionEndIncluding": "2.2.4",
              "vulnerable": true
            }
          ],
          "negate": false,
          "operator": "OR"
        }
      ]
    }
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    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "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."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "Potencial desbordamiento de b\u00fafer en la regi\u00f3n heap de la memoria en ParseJSS en VLC anterior a versi\u00f3n 2.2.5 de  VideoLAN, debido a una omisi\u00f3n del terminador NULL en una cadena de entrada permite a los atacantes ejecutar c\u00f3digo arbitrario por medio de un archivo de subt\u00edtulos especialmente dise\u00f1ado."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2017-8311",
  "lastModified": "2025-04-20T01:37:25.860",
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  ]
}


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