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CVE-2017-12143

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

In libquicktime 1.2.4, an allocation failure was found in the function quicktime_read_info in lqt_quicktime.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Affected products

• Libquicktime: 1.2.4

References

• https://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.com/2017/07/libquicktimeallocation-failed-in.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/libquicktime/mailman/message/35888850/
• https://somevulnsofadlab.blogspot.com/2017/07/libquicktimeallocation-failed-in.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/libquicktime/mailman/message/35888850/

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