CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-15267

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Oct 11, 2017 | Modified: Feb 04, 2018
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

In GNU Libextractor 1.4, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in flac_metadata in flac_extractor.c.

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
Libextractor Gnu 1.4 (including) 1.4 (including)
Libextractor Ubuntu artful *
Libextractor Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Libextractor Ubuntu trusty *
Libextractor Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Libextractor Ubuntu upstream *
Libextractor Ubuntu xenial *
Libextractor Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

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