CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-9051

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: May 18, 2017 | Modified: May 25, 2017
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

libav before 12.1 is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 1 due to NULL pointer dereferencing in the nsv_read_chunk function in libavformat/nsvdec.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
Libav Libav * 12.0 (including)
Ffmpeg Ubuntu upstream *
Ffmpeg Ubuntu yakkety *
Ffmpeg Ubuntu zesty *
Libav Ubuntu esm-infra-legacy/trusty *
Libav Ubuntu trusty *
Libav Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Libav Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

References