CVE-2018-12460

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-12460
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-15 15:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-08-02 15:10:00 UTC
Descriptionlibavcodec in FFmpeg 4.0 may trigger a NULL pointer dereference if the studio profile is incorrectly detected while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4, leading to a denial of service, related to idctdsp.c and mpegvideo.c.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ffmpeg Ffmpeg 4.0 All All All
Application Ffmpeg Ffmpeg 4.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
avcodec/idctdsp: Transmit studio_profile to init instead of using AVC… · FFmpeg/FFmpeg@b3332a1 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500901 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg
  • 502271 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg4
  • 504744 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg
  • 504762 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg4

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