CVE-2017-1000460: Ffmpeg

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In line libavcodec/h264dec.c:500 in libav(v13_dev0), ffmpeg(n3.4), chromium(56 prior Feb 13, 2017), the return value of init_get_bits is ignored and get_ue_golomb(&gb) is called on an uninitialized get_bits context, which causes a NULL deref exception.

Affected products

• Ffmpeg Ffmpeg: version 3.4 only
• Google Chrome: up to and including 56.0.2924
• Libav Libav: version 13_dev0 only

Published 2018-01-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.