NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package shairport-sync  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-SHAIRPORTSYNC-617975
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed20 Jan 2018

Introduced: 20 Jan 2018

CVE-2017-12130  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

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

An exploitable NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the tinysvcmdns library version 2017-11-05. A specially crafted packet can make the library dereference a NULL pointer leading to a server crash and denial of service. An attacker needs to send a DNS query to trigger this vulnerability.