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CVE-2017-10699 (GCVE-0-2017-10699)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-06-30 13:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:41
VLAI
Summary
avcodec 2.2.x, as used in VideoLAN VLC media player 2.2.7-x before 2017-06-29, allows out-of-bounds heap memory write due to calling memcpy() with a wrong size, leading to a denial of service (application crash) or possibly code execution.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038816 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4045 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/18467 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2017-06-30 00:00
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