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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-8312: VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-8312: VLC: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
11/06/2017

Description

Heap out-of-bound read in ParseJSS in VideoLAN VLC due to missing check of string length allows attackers to read heap uninitialized data via a crafted subtitles file.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-media-video-vlc

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