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CVE-2017-14638

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-09-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

AP4_AtomFactory::CreateAtomFromStream in Core/Ap4AtomFactory.cpp in Bento4 version 1.5.0-617 has missing NULL checks, leading to a NULL pointer dereference, segmentation fault, and application crash in AP4_Atom::SetType in Core/Ap4Atom.h.

Affected products

• Bento4: 1.5.0-617

References

• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/14/bento4-null-pointer-dereference-in-ap4_atomsettype-ap4atom-h/
• https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/commit/be7185faf7f52674028977dcf501c6039ff03aa5
• https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/issues/182
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/14/bento4-null-pointer-dereference-in-ap4_atomsettype-ap4atom-h/
• https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/commit/be7185faf7f52674028977dcf501c6039ff03aa5
• https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/issues/182

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