NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting ffmpeg package, versions <7:3.1.1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-FFMPEG-416605
  • published3 Jan 2018
  • disclosed3 Jan 2018

Introduced: 3 Jan 2018

CVE-2017-1000460  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable ffmpeg to version 7:3.1.1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ffmpeg package and not the ffmpeg package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

In line libavcodec/h264dec.c:500 in libav(v13_dev0), ffmpeg(n3.4), chromium(56 prior Feb 13, 2017), the return value of init_get_bits is ignored and get_ue_golomb(&gb) is called on an uninitialized get_bits context, which causes a NULL deref exception.