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Ubuntu: USN-4809-1 (CVE-2017-13135): VideoLAN x265 vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4809-1 (CVE-2017-13135): VideoLAN x265 vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/16/2017
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

A NULL Pointer Dereference exists in VideoLAN x265, as used in libbpg 0.9.7 and other products, because the CUData::initialize function in common/cudata.cpp mishandles memory-allocation failure.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libx265-79
  • ubuntu-upgrade-x265

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