CVE-2017-9051

Critical

Published: 18/05/2017(UTC)Translated: 14/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Summary

Libav versions before 12.1 are vulnerable to an invalid read of size 1 due to NULL pointer dereferencing in the nsv_read_chunk function in libavformat/nsvdec.c.

Risk Assessment

Exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to unexpected application behavior, potentially compromising system stability and data security.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade libav to version 12.1 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

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.