CVE-2017-8312

MEDIUM

VLC Media Player < 2.2.6 - Heap Out-of-Bounds Read in Subtitle Parser

Title source: llm

Description

Heap out-of-bound read in ParseJSS in VideoLAN VLC due to missing check of string length allows attackers to read heap uninitialized data via a crafted subtitles file.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Patch x_refsource_confirm

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3Bf=modules/demux/subtitle.c%3Bh=5e4fcdb7f25b2819f5441156c7c0ea2a7d112ca3%3Bhp=2a75fbfb7c3f56b24b2e4498bbb8fe0aa2575974%3Bhb=611398fc8d32f3fe4331f60b220c52ba3557beaa%3Bhpb=075bc7169b05b004fa0250e4a4ce5516b05487a9

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98631

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5

EPSS 0.0136

EPSS Percentile 68.3%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Details

CWE

CWE-125

Status published

Products (3)

debian/debian_linux 8.0

VideoLAN/VLC All

videolan/vlc_media_player < 2.2.6

Published May 23, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026