CVE-2017-8312: VideoLAN VLC

VideoLAN VLC: Heap out-of-bound read in ParseJSS in VideoLAN VLC due to missing check of string length…

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.014 · 71st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: checkpoint) at 23 May 2017, 21:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
VideoLAN	VLC	affected All

Identifiers

CVE-2017-8312

CNA

checkpoint

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.014, the 71st percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 23 May 2017. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201707-10 vendor-advisorygentoo
www.securityfocus.com/bid/98631 vdb-entrybid
www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3899 vendor-advisorydebian
git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git%3Ba=blobdiff%3Bf=modules/demux/subtitle.c%3Bh=5e4fcdb7f25b2819f5441156c7c0ea2a7d112ca3%3Bhp=2a75fbfb7c3f56b24b2e4498bbb8fe0aa2575974%3Bhb=611398fc8d32f3fe4331f60b220c52ba3557beaa%3Bhpb=075bc7169b05b004fa0250e4a4ce5516b05487a9 confirm

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