Out-of-bounds read in VLC Media Player - CVE-2017-8312
Published: June 2, 2017 / Updated: May 18, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU6888
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-8312
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to boundary error in ParseJSS in VideoLAN VLC, when processing subtitles. A remote unauthenticated attacker can create a specially crafted subtitle, trick the victim into loading it and trigger application crash via out-of-bounds read.Affected software
VLC Media Player
PopCorn Time
Stremio
Kodi
Debian Linux
Arch Linux
PopCorn Time
Stremio
Kodi
Debian Linux
Arch Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2017-8312
Update to version 2.2.5.1.