CVE-2017-8310

Name	CVE-2017-8310
Description	Heap out-of-bound read in CreateHtmlSubtitle in VideoLAN VLC 2.2.x due to missing check of string termination allows attackers to read data beyond allocated memory and potentially crash the process (causing a denial of service) via a crafted subtitles file.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-3899-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
vlc (PTS)	buster	3.0.17.4-0+deb10u1	fixed
	buster (security)	3.0.17.4-0+deb10u2	fixed
	bullseye (security), bullseye	3.0.18-0+deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	3.0.18-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin
vlc	source	wheezy	(unfixed)	end-of-life
vlc	source	jessie	2.2.6-1~deb8u1		DSA-3899-1
vlc	source	(unstable)	2.2.5.1-1~deb9u1

Notes

[wheezy] - vlc <end-of-life> (Not supported in wheezy LTS)
https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.2.git;a=commit;h=7cac839692ab79dbfe5e4ebd4c4e37d9a8b1b328