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CVE-2017-8311

7.8 highEPSS 8.8%

High (7.8) in videolan vlc media player. EPSS 8.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Potential heap based buffer overflow in ParseJSS in VideoLAN VLC before 2.2.5 due to skipping NULL terminator in an input string allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted subtitles file.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
8.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-119
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

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