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CVE-2017-9051

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.

Published

2017-05-18T06:29:00.527

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 9.8 (CRITICAL)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-476

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	libav	libav	≤ 12.0	Yes

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98548 ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1039 Issue Tracking ([email protected])
https://github.com/libav/libav/commit/fe6eea99efac66839052af547426518efd970b24 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98548 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1039 Issue Tracking (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/libav/libav/commit/fe6eea99efac66839052af547426518efd970b24 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)