Out-of-Bounds Heap Memory Write Vulnerability in avcodec 2.2.x

CVE-2017-10699 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

avcodec 2.2.x, as used in VideoLAN VLC media player 2.2.7-x before 2017-06-29, 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.

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