CVE-2017-14642

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    CVE-2017-14642

    Published: 21 Sept 2017Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in the AP4_HdlrAtom class in Bento4 version 1.5.0-617. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash in AP4_StdcFileByteStream::ReadPartial in System/StdC/Ap4StdCFileByteStream.cpp, which leads to remote denial of service.

    References: https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/14/bento4-null-pointer-dereference-in-ap4_stdcfilebytestreamreadpartial-ap4stdcfilebytestream-cpp/, https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/commit/22192de5367fa0cee985917f092be4060b7c00b0, https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/issues/185

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 3f2ad0b82d59aa5995d027df64b2964ebcf59e10
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.5.0-617

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Network
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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