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aacplusenc -- denial of service

Affected packages
aacplusenc <= 0.17.5_2

Details

VuXML ID 7801b1e1-99b4-42ac-ab22-7646235e7c16
Discovery 2017-09-07
Entry 2017-09-25

Gentoo developers report:

DeleteBitBuffer in libbitbuf/bitbuffer.c in mp4tools aacplusenc 0.17.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory write, SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000030, and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .wav file, aka a NULL pointer dereference.

References

CVE Name CVE-2017-14181
URL https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/07/aacplusenc-null-pointer-dereference-in-deletebitbuffer-bitbuffer-c/
URL https://github.com/teknoraver/aacplusenc/issues/1