Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-8311  

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.

Severity High

Remote No

Type Arbitrary code execution

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.

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=775de716add17322f24b476439f903a829446eb6