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FFmpeg: CVE-2018-1999011: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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FFmpeg: CVE-2018-1999011: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/23/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
09/21/2018
Modified
05/27/2019

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ffmpeg-upgrade-4_0_2

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