CVE-2018-12459

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12459
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-12459.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-12459
Downstream
Published
2018-06-15T15:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-22T18:49:33.844335Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An inconsistent bits-per-sample value in the ffmpeg4decodepictureheader function in libavcodec/mpeg4videodec.c in FFmpeg 4.0 may trigger an assertion violation while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4, leading to a denial of service.

References

Affected packages

Git / git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected

Git / git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
2fc108f60f98cd00813418a8754a46476b404a3c

Affected versions

Other

N

n0.*

n0.11-dev
n0.12-dev
n0.8

n1.*

n1.1-dev
n1.2-dev
n1.3-dev

n2.*

n2.0
n2.1-dev
n2.2-dev
n2.3-dev
n2.4-dev
n2.5-dev
n2.6-dev
n2.7-dev
n2.8-dev
n2.9-dev

n3.*

n3.1-dev
n3.2-dev
n3.3-dev
n3.4-dev
n3.5-dev

n4.*

n4.1-dev

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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        "target": {
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            "file": "libavcodec/mpeg4videodec.c"
        },
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        },
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