CVE-2025-25473 Null dereference in n/a
Medium 5.3
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-25473 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2025-25473 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 18 Feb 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-25473 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-25473/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-25473/index.md)
A null pointer dereference in FFmpeg's memory management can cause a denial of service when processing media files.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-25473?
CVE-2025-25473 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 18 Feb 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
FFmpeg git master before commit c08d30 was discovered to contain a memory leak in the avformat_free_context function in libavutil/mem.c.
Weakness: CWE-476
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-25473?
How do I fix CVE-2025-25473?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2025-25473 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-25473 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2025-25473, GHSA-c92g-p5cr-cr59, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-25473.