FKIE_CVE-2017-9051

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-05-18 06:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:27
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98548
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1039Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/libav/libav/commit/fe6eea99efac66839052af547426518efd970b24Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98548
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1039Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/libav/libav/commit/fe6eea99efac66839052af547426518efd970b24Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
libav libav *
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