ghsa-2ggh-fcw2-8mvr
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-17 00:26
Modified
2025-04-20 03:38
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-8310"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-125"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-05-23T21:29:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-2ggh-fcw2-8mvr",
  "modified": "2025-04-20T03:38:11Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T00:26:36Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8310"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git;a=blobdiff;f=modules/codec/subsdec.c;h=addd8c71f30d53558fffd19059b374be45cf0f8e;hp=1b4276e299a2a6668047231d29ac705ae93076ba;hb=7cac839692ab79dbfe5e4ebd4c4e37d9a8b1b328;hpb=3477dba3d506de8d95bccef2c6b67861188f6c29"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98638"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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