Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package vlc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1710-VLC-618278
  • published30 Jun 2017
  • disclosed30 Jun 2017

Introduced: 30 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-10699  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream vlc package and not the vlc package as distributed by Ubuntu.

avcodec 2.2.x, as used in VideoLAN VLC media player 2.2.7-x before 2017-06-29, allows out-of-bounds heap memory write due to calling memcpy() with a wrong size, leading to a denial of service (application crash) or possibly code execution.