CVE-2017-14642

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Published 2017-09-21 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/commit/22192de5367fa0cee985917f092be4060b7c00b0

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/14/bento4-null-pointer-dereference-in-ap4_stdcfilebytestreamreadpartial-ap4stdcfilebytestream-cpp/

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
bento4bento41.5.0-617

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.