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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.
CVE-2017-8313 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (vlc), 5 status rows across 5 suites (trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 3, ignored 1, needs-triage 1.
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.