CVE-2017-9124 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in libquicktime 1.2.4, specifically within the quicktime_match_32 function in util.c. A remote attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and application crash by providing a specially crafted MP4 file. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) requires user interaction (UI:R) and has a high impact on availability (A:H), but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, public exploit code is available via ExploitDB (EDB-42148), though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:libquicktime:libquicktime:1.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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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