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CVE-2017-10699

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

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.

Affected products

• VideoLAN VLC: 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5 (+3)

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038816
• https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/18467
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4045
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038816
• https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/18467
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4045

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