What is CVE-2017-9051?

CVE-2017-9051 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Libav, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-05-18.

How severe is CVE-2017-9051?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

NULL pointer dereference in Libav

CVE-2017-9051

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.

EPSS: 0.019 (77.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Libav
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-9051?: CVE-2017-9051 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Libav, classified under NULL Pointer Dereference. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-05-18.
How severe is CVE-2017-9051?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.