CVE-2017-9051

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9051
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-9051.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-9051
Downstream
Published
2017-05-18T06:29:00.527Z
Modified
2026-04-11T04:59:54.770295Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libav/libav

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libav/libav
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
Fixed
Database specific
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "12.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

dev14.*
dev14.2
v0.*
v0.7
v0.7b1
v0.7b2
v0.7rc1
v0.8
v0.8b1
v0.8b2
Other
v10_alpha1
v10_alpha2
v10_beta1
v11_alpha1
v11_alpha2
v11_beta1
v11_dev0
v12_dev0
v13_dev0
v9
v9_beta1
v9_beta2
v9_beta3

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-9051.json"
vanir_signatures_modified
"2026-04-11T04:59:54Z"
vanir_signatures
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        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "source": "https://github.com/libav/libav/commit/fe6eea99efac66839052af547426518efd970b24",
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
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        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-9051-1e586f1c",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "file": "libavformat/nsvdec.c"
        }
    },
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "source": "https://github.com/libav/libav/commit/fe6eea99efac66839052af547426518efd970b24",
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "131262218544824003360077917658789245651",
            "length": 3684.0
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-9051-8d9f97f1",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "file": "libavformat/nsvdec.c",
            "function": "nsv_read_chunk"
        }
    }
]