vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-17670: vlc -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 15, 2017
Added
May 18, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In VideoLAN VLC media player through 2.2.8, there is a type conversion vulnerability in modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c in the MP4 demux module leading to a invalid free, because the type of a box may be changed between a read operation and a free operation.

Solution

debian-upgrade-vlc
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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