UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9051

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9051

    Published: 18 May 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-9051

    Summary:

    Details: libav before 12.1 is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 1 due to NULL pointer dereferencing in the nsv_read_chunk function in libavformat/nsvdec.c.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9051, https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1039, https://github.com/libav/libav/commit/fe6eea99efac66839052af547426518efd970b24, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9051

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libav

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libav@6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    6:0.8.7-1ubuntu2

    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
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High