CVE-2017-14181

HIGH 7.8CVE-2017-14181 · Published 07/09/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2017-14181 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting aacplusenc (aacplusenc project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 64.4% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
aacplusenc aacplusenc_project	`= 0.17.5`	No fix yet

Description

DeleteBitBuffer in libbitbuf/bitbuffer.c in mp4tools aacplusenc 0.17.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory write, SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000030, and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .wav file, aka a NULL pointer dereference.

References

blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/07/aacplusenc-null-pointer-dereference-in-deletebitbuffer-bitbuffer-c · Exploit
teknoraver/aacplusenc · Exploit

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