CVE-2017-9051

critical

Description

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

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

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-17990

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-05-18

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01906

Detections

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