CVE-2017-8313

MEDIUM

Videolan Vlc Media Player < 2.2.4 - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Heap out-of-bound read in ParseJSS in VideoLAN VLC before 2.2.5 due to missing check of string termination allows attackers to read data beyond allocated memory and potentially crash the process via a crafted subtitles file.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
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/98633
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0034
EPSS Percentile 56.7%
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 (2)
VideoLAN/VLC < 2.2.5
videolan/vlc_media_player < 2.2.4
Published May 23, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026