Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published May 18, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-9051

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.

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Affected products

Libav/Libav
cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=12.0

Patches

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References

github.com/libav/libav/commit/fe6eea99efac66839052af547426518efd970b24nvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cginvdIssue Tracking
www.securityfocus.com/bid/98548nvd

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