Bug 1154065 (CVE-2019-17539) - VUL-1: CVE-2019-17539: ffmpeg: NULL pointer dereference in avcodec_open2 in libavcodec/utils.c
Summary: VUL-1: CVE-2019-17539: ffmpeg: NULL pointer dereference in avcodec_open2 in l...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2019-17539
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P4 - Low : Minor
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QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/244830/
Whiteboard: CVSSv3:SUSE:CVE-2019-17539:3.3:(AV:L/...
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Reported: 2019-10-15 12:18 UTC by Robert Frohl
Modified: 2024-07-26 17:37 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Robert Frohl 2019-10-15 12:18:01 UTC 
CVE-2019-17539

In FFmpeg before 4.2, avcodec_open2 in libavcodec/utils.c allows a NULL pointer
dereference and possibly unspecified other impact when there is no valid close
function pointer.

References:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15733
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2019-17539
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-17539.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17539
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/8df6884832ec413cf032dfaa45c23b1c7876670c
Comment 1 Robert Frohl 2019-11-18 10:46:49 UTC 
even though the code is slightly different, tracking as affected for:
- SUSE:SLE-15:Update
Comment 2 Alynx Zhou 2021-06-11 08:26:40 UTC 
https://build.suse.de/request/show/243003