Name: CVE-2017-9051: NULL Pointer Dereference
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2017-05-18T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2017-9051, CWE-476, CVSS 9.8, EPSS 0.00334

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 9.8
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade ffmpeg	Jul 30, 2024	May 18, 2017
Ffmpeg	—	Upgrade to FFmpeg version 2.6	Jul 20, 2026	May 18, 2017
Ubuntu	—	No solution exists	Jun 26, 2025	May 18, 2017

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CVSS Details

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