CVE-2017-13135
A NULL Pointer Dereference exists in VideoLAN x265, as used in libbpg 0.9.7 and other products,...
A NULL Pointer Dereference exists in VideoLAN x265, as used in libbpg 0.9.7 and other products, because the CUData::initialize function in common/cudata.cpp mishandles memory-allocation failure.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
A NULL Pointer Dereference exists in VideoLAN x265, as used in libbpg 0.9.7 and other products, because the CUData::initialize function in common/cudata.cpp mishandles memory-allocation failure.
- Record
CVE-2017-13135- CVSS 3.0
- 7.8 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 6.8 Medium
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-476
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
A NULL Pointer Dereference exists in VideoLAN x265, as used in libbpg 0.9.7 and other products, because the CUData::initialize function in common/cudata.cpp mishandles memory-allocation failure.
- Record
CVE-2017-13135- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-4652 No score
A NULL Pointer Dereference exists in VideoLAN x265, as used in libbpg 0.9.7 and other products, because the CUData::initialize function in common/cudata.cpp mishandles memory-allocation failure.
- Record
EUVD-2017-4652- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-c98w-gf53-9jwf
A NULL Pointer Dereference exists in VideoLAN x265, as used in libbpg 0.9.7 and other products,...
A NULL Pointer Dereference exists in VideoLAN x265, as used in libbpg 0.9.7 and other products, because the CUData::initialize function in common/cudata.cpp mishandles memory-allocation failure.
- Record
GHSA-c98w-gf53-9jwf- CVSS 3.0
- 7.8 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-476
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
A NULL Pointer Dereference exists in VideoLAN x265, as used in libbpg 0.9.7 and other products, because the CUData::initialize function in common/cudata.cpp mishandles memory-allocation failure.
- Record
CVE-2017-13135- CVSS 3.0
- 7.8 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-13135
A NULL Pointer Dereference exists in VideoLAN x265, as used in libbpg 0.9.7 and other products, because the CUData::initialize function in common/cudata.cpp mishandles memory-allocation failure.
- Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13135- CVSS 3.0
- 7.8 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2017-13135
A NULL Pointer Dereference exists in VideoLAN x265, as used in libbpg 0.9.7 and other products, because the CUData::initialize function in common/cudata.cpp mishandles memory-allocation failure.
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13135- CVSS 3.0
- 7.8 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUSN-4809-1 No score
x265 vulnerability
It was discovered that VideoLAN x265 mishandled certain memory-allocation inputs. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (crash)
- Record
USN-4809-1- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2017-13135 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) in Libbpg Project Libbpg, published November 16, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.36%, the 71st percentile. Fixed in x265 2.6-3.
References
securityfocus.com/bid/101929
github.com/ebel34/bpg-web-encoder/issues/1
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13135
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-13135
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-13135
bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265_git/issues/385/cve-2017-13135
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13135