vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-8311: VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 23, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

Potential heap based buffer overflow in ParseJSS in VideoLAN VLC before 2.2.5 due to skipping NULL terminator in an input string allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted subtitles file.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-video-vlc
Title
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