CVE-2017-8310

See a problem?
Please try reporting it to the source first.
Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8310
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8310.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-8310
Downstream
Published
2017-05-23T21:29:00.180Z
Modified
2026-04-10T04:02:12.910838Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/videolan/vlc-3.0

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/videolan/vlc-3.0
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
ddba52206f69bb123bea8ed4d4ada07b3cb1223c
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.9.0
0.9.0-test0
0.9.0-test1
0.9.0-test2
0.9.0-test3
1.*
1.0.0-pre1
1.0.0-pre2
1.0.0-rc1
1.1.0-ff
1.1.0-pre1
1.2.0-pre1
1.3.0-git
2.*
2.1.0-git
2.2.0-git
Other
svn-trunk

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8310.json"
unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "2.2.1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "2.2.2"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "2.2.3"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "2.2.4"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "2.2.5"
            }
        ]
    }
]