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CVE-2017-9051

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-05-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

libav before 12.1 is vulnerable to an invalid read of size 1 due to NULL pointer dereferencing in the nsv_read_chunk function in libavformat/nsvdec.c.

Affected products

• libav: through 12.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98548
• https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1039
• https://github.com/libav/libav/commit/fe6eea99efac66839052af547426518efd970b24
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98548
• https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1039
• https://github.com/libav/libav/commit/fe6eea99efac66839052af547426518efd970b24

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