CVE-2017-12800 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the libebml2 library, affecting Matroska tools like mkclean and mkvalidator. An attacker can trigger a null pointer dereference and application crash by providing a specially crafted MKV file. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) to open the malicious file, but has low attack complexity (AC:L) over a network (AV:N). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2012-08-26CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:matroska:libebml2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.8.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:matroska:mkclean:0.8.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:matroska:mkvalidator:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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