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CVE-2015-8270

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Apr 13, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8270
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

The AMF3ReadString function in amf.c in RTMPDump 2.4 allows remote RTMP Media servers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and process crash).

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
RtmpdumpRtmpdump_project2.4 (including)2.4 (including)
RtmpdumpUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
RtmpdumpUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
RtmpdumpUbuntuprecise*
RtmpdumpUbuntutrusty*
RtmpdumpUbuntutrusty/esm*
RtmpdumpUbuntuupstream*
RtmpdumpUbuntuvivid/stable-phone-overlay*
RtmpdumpUbuntuvivid/ubuntu-core*
RtmpdumpUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References

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