Vigil@nce - Audio File: NULL pointer dereference via ModuleState-setup
December 2018 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on
client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 18/10/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a NULL pointer to be dereferenced via
ModuleState::setup() of Audio File, in order to trigger a denial
of service.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Audio-File-NULL-pointer-dereference-via-ModuleState-setup-27575