Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-8312  

Heap out-of-bound read in ParseJSS in VideoLAN VLC due to missing check of string length allows attackers to read heap uninitialized data via a crafted subtitles file.

Severity Medium

Remote No

Type Denial of service

Description

Heap out-of-bound read in ParseJSS in VideoLAN VLC due to missing check of string length allows attackers to read heap uninitialized data via a crafted subtitles file.

AVG-283 vlc 2.2.4-9 2.2.6-1 High Fixed FS#54194

01 Jun 2017 ASA-201706-1 AVG-283 vlc High multiple issues

http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=commitdiff;h=611398fc8d32f3fe4331f60b220c52ba3557beaa