CVE-2017-17670 — Use After Free in VLC Media Player

CWE-416 — Use After Free5 documents5 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.3%
top 20.61%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Videolan VLC Media PlayerDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedDec 15
Latest updateMay 14

Description

In VideoLAN VLC media player through 2.2.8, there is a type conversion vulnerability in modules/demux/mp4/libmp4.c in the MP4 demux module leading to a invalid free, because the type of a box may be changed between a read operation and a free operation.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianvideolan/vlc_media_player< 3.0.0~rc2-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 9.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-6p8x-v4m8-8pvg: In VideoLAN VLC media player through 2↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2017-17670: In VideoLAN VLC media player through 2↗2017-12-15
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CVEList
CVE-2017-17670: In VideoLAN VLC media player through 2↗2017-12-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2017-17670: vlc - In VideoLAN VLC media player through 2.2.8, there is a type conversion vulnerabi...↗2017
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