CVE-2019-17539

Summary

CVECVE-2019-17539
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-10-14 02:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-06-10 13:58:00 UTC
DescriptionIn FFmpeg before 4.2, avcodec_open2 in libavcodec/utils.c allows a NULL pointer dereference and possibly unspecified other impact when there is no valid close function pointer.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Ffmpeg Ffmpeg All All All All
Application Ffmpeg Ffmpeg All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
15733 - oss-fuzz - OSS-Fuzz: Fuzzing the planet - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
USN-4431-1: FFmpeg vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4722-1 ffmpeg DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
avcodec/utils: Check close before calling it · FFmpeg/FFmpeg@8df6884 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
FFmpeg: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202003-65) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2537-1] ffmpeg security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500907 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg
  • 502277 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg4
  • 504750 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg
  • 504768 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg4
  • 750835 OpenSUSE Security Update for ffmpeg (openSUSE-SU-2021:2322-1)
  • 751079 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for ffmpeg (SUSE-SU-2021:2929-1)
  • 904918 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for mozjs60 (12373)
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