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CVE-2017-9051

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Date: May 18, 2017

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.3

Related Resources (7)

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9051

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98548

Url: https://github.com/libav/libav/commit/fe6eea99efac66839052af547426518efd970b24

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-9051

Url: https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1039

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9051

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-9051

Severity Score

7.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

NULL Pointer Dereference

CWE-476

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 12.1

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.5
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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