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Bug 637168 (CVE-2017-12779) - <media-video/mkvalidator-0.5.2: Denial of Service vulnerability
Summary: <media-video/mkvalidator-0.5.2: Denial of Service vulnerability
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2017-12779
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
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Whiteboard: ~3 [noglsa cve]
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Reported: 2017-11-11 20:18 UTC by GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot
Modified: 2018-01-25 00:28 UTC (History)
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Description GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2017-11-11 20:18:56 UTC 
CVE-2017-12779 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-12779):
  The Node_GetData function in corec/corec/node/node.c in mkvalidator 0.5.1
  allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Null pointer
  dereference and application crash) via a crafted mkv file.
Comment 1 Christopher Díaz Riveros (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2017-11-11 20:20:15 UTC 
@Maintainers please let us know when tree is clean from vulnerable versions.

Thank you