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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-1999012: Infinite Loop

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 23, 2018
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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.

Solutions

alpine-linux-upgrade-ffmpegalpine-linux-upgrade-ffmpeg4
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