vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2017-10699)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 30, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

It was discovered that avcodec 2.2.x, as used in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.2.7, allows out-of-bounds heap memory write due to calling memcpy() with a wrong size, leading to a denial of service (application crash) or possibly code execution.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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