PT-2017-14721 · Libav · Libav

Published 2017-12-04 · Updated 2019-12-05 · CVE-2017-17127

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Libav version 12.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash, via a crafted file. This is due to a problem in the vc1 decode frame function in libavcodec/vc1dec.c.

Recommendations For Libav version 12.2, consider updating to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue, as the current version is affected by a denial of service vulnerability. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-17127

DLA-2021-1

Affected Products

Libav

References · 9

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1099 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17127 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17127 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17127 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17127 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-17127 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-2021-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00003.html · Note
• https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/tracker/CVE-2017-17127 · Note