Medium severity6.5OSV Advisory· Published Jan 3, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-1000460
CVE-2017-1000460
Description
In line libavcodec/h264dec.c:500 in libav(v13_dev0), ffmpeg(n3.4), chromium(56 prior Feb 13, 2017), the return value of init_get_bits is ignored and get_ue_golomb(&gb) is called on an uninitialized get_bits context, which causes a NULL deref exception.
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References
4- chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/third_party/ffmpeg/+/8e313ca08800178efce00045e07dc494d437b70cnvdIssue TrackingPatch
- lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2017-January/104221.htmlnvdIssue TrackingPatch
- bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00041.htmlnvd
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