CVE-2018-12460

Published: 15 June 2018

libavcodec 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.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
ffmpeg Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	artful	Ignored (end of life)
	bionic	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	cosmic	Not vulnerable (7:4.0.1-1)
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Not vulnerable (debian: Introduced after 3.4)
	xenial	Not vulnerable (code not present)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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