CVE-2018-1999012

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-1999012
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-23 15:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionFFmpeg before commit 9807d3976be0e92e4ece3b4b1701be894cd7c2e1 contains a CWE-835: Infinite loop vulnerability in pva format demuxer that can result in a Vulnerability that allows attackers to consume excessive amount of resources like CPU and RAM. This attack appear to be exploitable via specially crafted PVA file has to be provided as input. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 9807d3976be0e92e4ece3b4b1701be894cd7c2e1 and later.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-835

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ffmpeg Ffmpeg All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
avformat/pva: Check for EOF before retrying in read_part_of_packet() · FFmpeg/FFmpeg@9807d39 · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1740-1] libav security update MLIST lists.debian.org
FFmpeg Multiple Security Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500902 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg
  • 502272 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg4
  • 504745 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg
  • 504763 Alpine Linux Security Update for ffmpeg4
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