CVE-2017-8310

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CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

1%p68

Published

May 23, 2017 (May 23, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Vendors: videolan
Products: vlc media player
Weakness: CWE-125
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.3%)

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