NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting ffmpeg package, versions >=0.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-COCOAPODS-FFMPEG-471278
  • published2 Oct 2019
  • disclosed5 Nov 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-17555  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for FFmpeg.

Overview

FFmpeg is a FFmpeg static library ruby binding that is compiled for iOS and CocoaPods.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. FFmpeg is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. A malicious user can pass a malicious audio file to the swri_audio_convert method in the libswresample/audioconvert.c file, causing a null pointer dereference that can crash the application.

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