CVE-2017-1000460

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-1000460
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-01-03 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-03-31 02:29:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ffmpeg Ffmpeg 3.4 All All All
Application Ffmpeg Ffmpeg 3.4 All All All
Application Google Chrome All All All All
Application Libav Libav 13_dev0 All All All
Application Libav Libav 13_dev0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug 952 – NULL dereference in libavcodec/h264dec.c:499/500 MISC bugzilla.libav.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
8e313ca08800178efce00045e07dc494d437b70c - chromium/third_party/ffmpeg - Git at Google MISC chromium.googlesource.com Issue Tracking, Patch
[SECURITY] [DLA 1740-1] libav security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[FFmpeg-cvslog] h264dec: handle zero-sized NAL units in get_last_needed_nal() MISC lists.ffmpeg.org Issue Tracking, Patch
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