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[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: vlc (Ubuntu Artful)
   Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)
       Status: In Progress

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Title:
  Possible remote code execution related to subtitles

Status in vlc package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in vlc source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in vlc source package in Zesty:
  In Progress
Status in vlc source package in Artful:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  VLC 2.2.5.1 fixes buffer overflow and out of bound read bugs related to subtitle decoding. A company called "Check Point" appears to have reported them, but they did not release any details. [1]
  At least the following 5 commits relate to these bugs: [2]

  Presumably all currently supported Ubuntu releases are affected by at
  least one bug fixed by the patches.

  By the way, there seem to be other security related commits in VLC
  that might need backporting, e.g. [3] [4]

  [1]: http://blog.checkpoint.com/2017/05/23/hacked-in-translation/
  [2]: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/search?q=checkpoint&type=Commits&utf8=%E2%9C%93
  [3]: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/search?o=desc&p=1&q=overflow&s=committer-date&type=Commits&utf8=%E2%9C%93
  [4]: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/search?o=desc&q=out+of+bound&s=committer-date&type=Commits&utf8=%E2%9C%93

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