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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-6548

A use-after-free issue was discovered in libwebm through 2018-02-02. If a Vp9HeaderParser was initialized once before, its property frame_ would not be changed because of code in vp9parser::Vp9HeaderParser::SetFrame. Its frame_ could be freed while the corresponding pointer would not be updated, leading to a dangling pointer. This is related to the function OutputCluster in webm_info.cc.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:10 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-6548

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Feb 2018, 09:29 UTC

A use-after-free issue was discovered in libwebm through 2018-02-02. If a Vp9HeaderParser was initialized once before, its property frame_ would not be changed because of code in vp9parser::Vp9HeaderParser::SetFrame. Its frame_ could be freed while the corresponding pointer would not be updated, leading to a dangling pointer. This is related to the function OutputCluster in webm_info.cc.

osv:CVE-2018-6548
Complete source record
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    "summary": "A use-after-free issue was discovered in libwebm through 2018-02-02. If a Vp9HeaderParser was initialized once before, its property frame_ would not be changed because of code in vp9parser::Vp9HeaderParser::SetFrame. Its frame_ could be freed while the corresponding pointer would not be updated, leading to a dangling pointer. This is related to the function OutputCluster in webm_info.cc.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:25.283884384Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://bugs.chromium.org/p/webm/issues/detail?id=1493",
        "https://github.com/dwfault/PoCs/blob/master/libwebm%20Vp9HeaderParser%20UAF%20by%20PrintVP9Info/libwebm%20Vp9HeaderParser%20UAF%20by%20PrintVP9Info.md"
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