CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-17554

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Dec 12, 2017 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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
LOW

A NULL pointer dereference (DoS) Vulnerability was found in the function aubio_source_avcodec_readframe in io/source_avcodec.c of aubio 0.4.6, which may lead to DoS when playing a crafted audio file.

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
Aubio Aubio 0.4.6 (including) 0.4.6 (including)
Aubio Ubuntu artful *
Aubio Ubuntu bionic *
Aubio Ubuntu cosmic *
Aubio Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Aubio Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Aubio Ubuntu trusty *
Aubio Ubuntu upstream *
Aubio Ubuntu xenial *
Aubio Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

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