A NULL Pointer Dereference exists in VideoLAN x265, as used in libbpg 0.9.7 and other products, because the CUData::initialize function in common/cudata.cpp mishandles memory-allocation failure.
Weakness
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Libbpg | Libbpg_project | 0.9.7 (including) | 0.9.7 (including) |
| X265 | Ubuntu | artful | * |
| X265 | Ubuntu | esm-apps/xenial | * |
| X265 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| X265 | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
| X265 | Ubuntu | zesty | * |