Vulnerability CVE-2017-8313
Published: 2017-05-23

Description:
Heap out-of-bound read in ParseJSS in VideoLAN VLC before 2.2.5 due to missing check of string termination allows attackers to read data beyond allocated memory and potentially crash the process via a crafted subtitles file.

Type:

CWE-125

 (Out-of-bounds Read)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Videolan -> Vlc media player 

 References:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git;a=commitdiff;h=05b653355ce303ada3b5e0e645ae717fea39186c
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98633
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10
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