CVE-2017-14642

A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in the AP4_HdlrAtom class in Bento4 version 1.5.0-617. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash in AP4_StdcFileByteStream::ReadPartial in System/StdC/Ap4StdCFileByteStream.cpp, which leads to remote denial of service.

• CWE-476

• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/14/bento4-null-pointer-dereference-in-ap4_stdcfilebytestreamreadpartial-ap4stdcfilebytestream-cpp/Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/commit/22192de5367fa0cee985917f092be4060b7c00b0Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/issues/185Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/14/bento4-null-pointer-dereference-in-ap4_stdcfilebytestreamreadpartial-ap4stdcfilebytestream-cpp/Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/commit/22192de5367fa0cee985917f092be4060b7c00b0Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/issues/185Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Published

Sep 21, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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