CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-1999012
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-07-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
Description
FFmpeg 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.
Affected configurations
• ffmpeg ffmpeg (<= 4.0.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104896 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/9807d3976be0e92e4ece3b4b1701be894cd7c2e1 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00041.html lists.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104896 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/9807d3976be0e92e4ece3b4b1701be894cd7c2e1 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00041.html lists.debian.org