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CVE-2017-8311

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 8.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-05-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

• VideoLAN VLC: through 2.2.4

References

• http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=775de716add17322f24b476439f903a829446eb6
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98634
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44514/
• http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=775de716add17322f24b476439f903a829446eb6
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98634
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44514/

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