NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libwebm package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBWEBM-10078610
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed13 Mar 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-9746  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. In libwebm before 2019-03-08, a NULL pointer dereference caused by the functions OutputCluster and OutputTracks in webm_info.cc will trigger an abort, which allows a DoS attack, a similar issue to CVE-2018-19212.

CVSS Base Scores

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