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CVE-2026-102875 (GCVE-0-2026-102875)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-29 20:01
Modified
2026-09-30 13:50
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Summary
VLC media player before 3.0.24 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the skins2 ThemeLoader that fails to validate member names in .vlt skin archives. Attackers can craft malicious skin files with path traversal sequences to write arbitrary files with VLC user privileges, enabling code execution through Lua script injection.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
videolan vlc Version: 0   ≤
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CVE-2017-8312 (GCVE-0-2017-8312)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-23 21:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:34
Severity ?
CWE
  • Allows attacker to read heap uninitialized data (potentially beyond allocated data - depends on heap implementation).
Summary
Heap out-of-bound read in ParseJSS in VideoLAN VLC due to missing check of string length allows attackers to read heap uninitialized data via a crafted subtitles file.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VideoLAN VLC Version: All
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CVE-2017-8313 (GCVE-0-2017-8313)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-23 21:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:34
Severity ?
CWE
  • Allows attacker to read data beyond allocated memory and potentially crash the process (causing a denial of service).
Summary
Heap out-of-bound read in ParseJSS in VideoLAN VLC before 2.2.5 due to missing check of string termination allows attackers to read data beyond allocated memory and potentially crash the process via a crafted subtitles file.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VideoLAN VLC Version: < 2.2.5
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CVE-2017-8310 (GCVE-0-2017-8310)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-23 21:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:34
Severity ?
CWE
  • Allows attacker to read data beyond allocated memory and potentially crash the process (causing a denial of service)
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VideoLAN VLC Version: 2.2.*
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CVE-2017-8311 (GCVE-0-2017-8311)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-23 21:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:34
Severity ?
CWE
  • Allows attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Summary
Potential heap based buffer overflow in ParseJSS in VideoLAN VLC before 2.2.5 due to skipping NULL terminator in an input string allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted subtitles file.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VideoLAN VLC Version: <2.2.5
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