CVE-2016-8675

2017-02-1521:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

5.3 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

60.7%

JSON

The get_vlc2 function in get_bits.h in Libav before 11.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a crafted mp3 file, possibly related to startcode sequences during m4v detection.

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/16/13

www.securityfocus.com/bid/93468

blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2016/09/07/libav-null-pointer-dereference-in-get_vlc2_get_bits_h/

github.com/libav/libav/commit/e5b019725f53b79159931d3a7317107cbbfd0860