CVE-2017-8313

MEDIUM

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

Title source: rule

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)

[Patch] http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=05b653355ce303ada3b5e0e645ae717fea39186c

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98633

[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 0.0034

EPSS Percentile 56.3%

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_media_player < 2.2.4

VideoLAN/VLC < < 2.2.5

Published May 23, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026