UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13135

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13135

    Published: 16 Nov 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-13135
    Aliases:
    USN-4809-1

    Summary:

    Details: A NULL Pointer Dereference exists in VideoLAN x265, as used in libbpg 0.9.7 and other products, because the CUData::initialize function in common/cudata.cpp mishandles memory-allocation failure.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-13135, https://github.com/ebel34/bpg-web-encoder/issues/1, https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git/issues/385/cve-2017-13135, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13135, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4809-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: x265

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.9-3ubuntu0.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    1.7-4

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High