NULL pointer dereference in Clementine Music Player - CVE-2018-14332
Published: August 19, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU20323
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14332
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dreference error in the Init call in the MoodbarPipeline::NewPadCallback function in moodbar/moodbarpipeline.cpp. The vulnerability is triggered when the user opens a malformed mp3 file. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Clementine Music Player
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
How to mitigate CVE-2018-14332
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
External References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00038.html
- https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/blob/e5ab3e786f9adde12cec3cc90cfe8c1cc6b06320/src/moodbar/moodbarpipeline.cpp#L155
- https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine/issues/6078
- https://github.com/MostafaSoliman/Security-Advisories/blob/master/CVE-2018-14332