CVE-2017-8311

EPSS 8.8%

Vexday Risk Score

23Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

CVSS —EPSS 8.8%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit —Patch referenciado

Lifecycle

23 May 2017Published on NVD

24 Apr 2018Public PoC

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

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

public PoCs found — 2

cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/44514/unverified exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/44514unverified

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References

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