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CVE-2017-14225

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-09-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The av_color_primaries_name function in libavutil/pixdesc.c in FFmpeg 3.3.3 may return a NULL pointer depending on a value contained in a file, but callers do not anticipate this, as demonstrated by the avcodec_string function in libavcodec/utils.c, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. (It is also conceivable that there is security relevance for a NULL pointer dereference in av_color_primaries_name calls within the ffprobe command-line program.)

Affected products

• FFmpeg: 3.3.3

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3996
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100704
• https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/837cb4325b712ff1aab531bf41668933f61d75d2
• https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2017-August/215198.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3996
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100704
• https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/837cb4325b712ff1aab531bf41668933f61d75d2
• https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2017-August/215198.html

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