PT-2017-9197 · Libav · Libav

Agostino Sarubbo · Published 2017-02-15 · Updated 2017-02-17 · CVE-2016-7477

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Libav version 11.7

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in invalid memory access and a crash, via a crafted mp3 file. This is due to a problem in the ff put pixels8 xy2 mmx function in rnd template.c.

Recommendations For Libav version 11.7, consider applying a patch or fix that addresses the issue in the ff put pixels8 xy2 mmx function to prevent denial of service attacks.

Fix

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-7477

Affected Products

Libav

References · 8

• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7477 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7477 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7477 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7477 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7477 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/93042 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/21/6 · Note
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/09/20/libav-null-pointer-dereference-in-ff_put_pixels8_xy2_mmx-rnd_template-c · Note