CVE-2017-10699

Publication date 30 June 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that VLC mishandled certain crafted media files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
vlc	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Fixed 2.2.4-14ubuntu2.1
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.2.2-5ubuntu0.16.04.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.1.6-0ubuntu14.04.5+esm1 Ubuntu Pro

Get expanded security coverage with Ubuntu Pro

Reduce your average CVE exposure time from 98 days to 1 day with expanded CVE patching, ten-years security maintenance and optional support for the full stack of open-source applications. Free for personal use.

Get Ubuntu Pro

Notes

ratliff

notes from the upstream: "The avcodec library does not gives bogus video sizes on 3.0, so the issue only exists on the 2.2.x branch. Fixes have been pushed on the 2.2.x branch and guards added as well on both versions."

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H