Security advisory

{
  "id": "72f7808a97946a18d4688579b1ae4ef63f1108f469cf1d8b9fd637fa812ebcf2",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-10699",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-10699",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-10699",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-10699",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-10699"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/videolan/vlc-3.0",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "ddba52206f69bb123bea8ed4d4ada07b3cb1223c"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "ddba52206f69bb123bea8ed4d4ada07b3cb1223c"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.2.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.2.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.2.0",
            "2.2.0-git"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-10699.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:34.714696355Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4045",
        "https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/18467"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:2.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:2.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:2.2.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:2.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:2.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:a:videolan:vlc_media_player:2.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "videolan:vlc_media_player",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "2.2.1"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "2.2.1"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "2.2.2"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "2.2.2"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "2.2.3"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "2.2.3"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "2.2.4"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "2.2.4"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "2.2.5"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "2.2.5"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "2.2.5.1"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "2.2.5.1"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "2.2.6"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "2.2.6"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "2.2.7"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "2.2.7"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-10699",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 433590,
  "published_at": "2017-06-30T13:29:00.347+00:00"
}