CVE-2017-17127

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Libav version 12.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a NULL pointer dereference and application crash, via a crafted file. This is due to a problem in the vc1 decode frame function in libavcodec/vc1dec.c.

Recommendations For Libav version 12.2, consider updating to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue, as the current version is affected by a denial of service vulnerability. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.