Out-of-Bounds Affecting videolan package, versions [,2.2.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
10.18% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIDEOLAN-2371179
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 May 2017

CVE-2017-8311  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade videolan to version 2.2.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

CVSS Scores

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