NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libgig  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-LIBGIG-313068
  • published28 Aug 2017
  • disclosed28 Aug 2017

Introduced: 28 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-12950  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libgig package and not the libgig package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The gig::Region::Region function in gig.cpp in libgig 4.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted gig file.