vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2017-9300)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 29, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

It was discovered that plugins\codec\libflac_plugin.so in VideoLAN VLC media player before 2.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a heap corruption and application crash leading to denial of service or possibly execution of arbitrary code via a crafted FLAC file.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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