CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-8272

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Apr 13, 2017 | Modified: Nov 04, 2017
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

RTMPDump 2.4 allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and process crash).

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Rtmpdump Rtmpdump_project 2.4 (including) 2.4 (including)
Rtmpdump Ubuntu precise *
Rtmpdump Ubuntu trusty *
Rtmpdump Ubuntu upstream *
Rtmpdump Ubuntu vivid/stable-phone-overlay *
Rtmpdump Ubuntu vivid/ubuntu-core *
Rtmpdump Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References