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CVE-2018-17236 (GCVE-0-2018-17236)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-20 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:47
VLAI
Summary
The function MP4Free() in mp4property.cpp in libmp4v2 2.1.0 internally calls free() on a invalid pointer, raising a SIGABRT signal.
CWE
  • n/a
Date Public
2018-09-20 00:00
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