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NULL Pointer Dereference

CVE-2017-14406

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in sync_buffer in interface.c in mpglibDBL, as used in MP3Gain version 1.5.2. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash, which leads to remote denial of service.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

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  • Published