CVE-2017-7605 - Reachable Assertion

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

aacplusenc.c in HE-AAC+ Codec (aka libaacplus) 2.0.2 has an assertion failure, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted audio file.

aacplusenc.c in HE-AAC+ Codec (aka libaacplus) 2.0.2 has an assertion failure, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted audio file.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Demo Examples

Reachable Assertion

CWE-617

In the excerpt below, an AssertionError (an unchecked exception) is thrown if the user hasn't entered an email address in an HTML form.


               
assert email != null;

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2017-04-09 14:59:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

libaacplus Project libaacplus 2.0.2

2.0.2

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