CVE-2017-10699 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038816 https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/18467 https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4045

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8