CVE-2017-8310

MEDIUM

Videolan Vlc Media Player - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule

Description

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 (4)

[Patch] 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

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98638

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0018

EPSS Percentile 39.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-125

Status published

Products (7)

videolan/vlc_media_player

videolan/vlc_media_player

videolan/vlc_media_player

videolan/vlc_media_player

videolan/vlc_media_player

videolan/vlc_media_player

VideoLAN/VLC < 2.2.*

Published May 23, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026