CVSS 3.0
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2017-8310
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 69% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-125
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- videolan:vlc_media_player
References
- 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
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98638
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10
- 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