CVE-2018-1999012

FFmpeg before commit 9807d3976be0e92e4ece3b4b1701be894cd7c2e1 contains a CWE-835: Infinite loop vulnerability in pva format demuxer that can result in...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1999012 ffmpeg Fixed in: 7:4.0.2-1
Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1999012 libav

References

advisory securityfocus.com
patch github.com
web lists.debian.org