UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14642

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14642

    Published: 21 Sept 2017Last Modified: 20 May 2026
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    CVE-2017-14642

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14642, 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, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-14642

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: kodi-inputstream-adaptive

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/kodi-inputstream-adaptive?arch=source&distro=jammy

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.6.14+ds1-1
    2.6.23+ds1-1

    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