FKIE_CVE-2017-17555

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-12-12 01:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:11
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
The swri_audio_convert function in audioconvert.c in FFmpeg libswresample through 3.0.101, as used in FFmpeg 3.4.1, aubio 0.4.6, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted audio file.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00012.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/IvanCql/vulnerability/blob/master/An%20NULL%20pointer%20dereference%28DoS%29%20Vulnerability%20was%20found%20in%20function%20swri_audio_convert%20of%20ffmpeg%20libswresample.md
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00012.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/IvanCql/vulnerability/blob/master/An%20NULL%20pointer%20dereference%28DoS%29%20Vulnerability%20was%20found%20in%20function%20swri_audio_convert%20of%20ffmpeg%20libswresample.md
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
aubio aubio 0.4.6
ffmpeg ffmpeg 3.4.1
ffmpeg libswresample *
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