Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-14642",
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    "title": "CVE-2017-14642",
    "summary": "A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in the AP4_HdlrAtom class in Bento4 version 1.5.0-617. The vulnerability causes a segmentation fault and application crash in AP4_StdcFileByteStream::ReadPartial in System/StdC/Ap4StdCFileByteStream.cpp, which leads to remote denial of service.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T13:21:13.717706197Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/09/14/bento4-null-pointer-dereference-in-ap4_stdcfilebytestreamreadpartial-ap4stdcfilebytestream-cpp/",
        "https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/commit/22192de5367fa0cee985917f092be4060b7c00b0",
        "https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4/issues/185"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2017-09-21T17:29:00.307+00:00"
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