CVE-2017-8312

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.

Published: May 23, 2017
Updated: Apr 13, 2023
CVE: CVE-2017-8312
Severity: Medium
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Medium
Score: 5.5
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2:

Severity: Low
Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CWEs:

CWE-125

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
videolan / vlc_media_player	-	2.2.6
debian / debian_linux	8.0	8.0.x

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blobdiff;f=modules/demux/subtitle.c;h=5e4fcdb7f25b2819f5441156c7c0ea2a7d112ca3;hp=2a75fbfb7c3f56b24b2e4498bbb8fe0aa2575974;hb=611398fc8d32f3fe4331f60b220c52ba3557beaa;hpb=075bc7169b05b004fa0250e4a4ce5516b05487a9
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3Bf=modules/demux/subtitle.c%3Bh=5e4fcdb7f25b2819f5441156c7c0ea2a7d112ca3%3Bhp=2a75fbfb7c3f56b24b2e4498bbb8fe0aa2575974%3Bhb=611398fc8d32f3fe4331f60b220c52ba3557beaa%3Bhpb=075bc7169b05b004fa0250e4a4ce5516b05487a9
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98631
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10

Vulnerability Database

289,697

CVE-2017-8312