Heap Out-of-Bound Read Vulnerability in VideoLAN VLC 2.2.x

CVE-2017-8310 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Heap out-of-bound read in CreateHtmlSubtitle in VideoLAN VLC 2.2.x due to missing check of string termination allows attackers to read data beyond allocated memory and potentially crash the process (causing a denial of service) via a crafted subtitles file.

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