Out-of-bounds Read Affecting videolan package, versions [2.2.0,2.2.5]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIDEOLAN-2371212
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 May 2017

CVE-2017-8310  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for videolan.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. 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.

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