PT-2017-18278 · Videolan+1 · Vlc+1

Published 2017-05-23 · Updated 2017-11-04 · CVE-2017-8313

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VideoLAN VLC versions prior to 2.2.5

Description The issue is related to a heap out-of-bound read in the ParseJSS function. This occurs due to a missing check of string termination, allowing attackers to read data beyond allocated memory. As a result, the process may crash via a crafted subtitles file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.2.5, update to version 2.2.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1685

CVE-2017-8313

DSA-3899-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Vlc

References · 12

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8313 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8313 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3899-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8313 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-8313 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8313 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8313 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8313 · Security Note
• http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=05b653355ce303ada3b5e0e645ae717fea39186c · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/98633 · Note