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CVE-2018-1999011

Published: 23 July 2018

FFmpeg before commit 2b46ebdbff1d8dec7a3d8ea280a612b91a582869 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in asf_o format demuxer that can result in heap-buffer-overflow that may result in remote code execution. This attack appears to be exploitable via specially crafted ASF file that has to be provided as input to FFmpeg. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2b46ebdbff1d8dec7a3d8ea280a612b91a582869 and later.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
marking chromium-browser as ignored, since we do full-version
updates, and rely on upstream's bundled ffmpeg version
ebarretto
According to upstream FFmpeg:
Code does not exist in 2.8

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
vlc
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
cosmic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
disco Not vulnerable
(code not present)
eoan Not vulnerable
(code not present)
focal Not vulnerable
(code not present)
xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(code not present)
groovy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
impish Not vulnerable
(code not present)
jammy Not vulnerable
(code not present)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
lunar Not vulnerable
(code not present)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Not vulnerable
(code not present)
mantic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
chromium-browser
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
groovy Ignored

hirsute Ignored

bionic Ignored

cosmic Ignored

disco Ignored

eoan Ignored

focal Ignored

impish Ignored

jammy Ignored

kinetic Ignored

lunar Ignored

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was ignored [no longer updated])
upstream
Released
xenial Ignored

mantic Ignored

ffmpeg
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
groovy Not vulnerable
(7:4.1-1)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(7:4.1-1)
bionic Not vulnerable
(7:3.4.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Not vulnerable
(7:4.1-1)
eoan Not vulnerable
(7:4.1-1)
focal Not vulnerable
(7:4.1-1)
impish Not vulnerable
(7:4.1-1)
jammy Not vulnerable
(7:4.1-1)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(7:4.1-1)
lunar Not vulnerable
(7:4.1-1)
trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
mantic Not vulnerable
(7:4.1-1)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/2b46ebdbff1d8dec7a3d8ea280a612b91a582869
oxide-qt
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
groovy Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

eoan Does not exist

focal Does not exist

impish Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

kinetic Does not exist

lunar Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was ignored [Ubuntu touch end-of-life])
upstream Needs triage

xenial Ignored
(Ubuntu touch end-of-life)
mantic Does not exist

gst-libav1.0
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
groovy Ignored
(end of life)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
xenial Needs triage

bionic Needs triage

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
focal Needs triage

impish Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Needs triage

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needs-triage)
upstream Needs triage

mantic Needs triage

lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
qtwebengine-opensource-src
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
impish Ignored
(end of life)
bionic Needs triage

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
focal Needs triage

groovy Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Needs triage

trusty Does not exist

upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

mantic Needs triage

lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H