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FFmpeg: CVE-2019-12730: Use of Uninitialized Resource

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FFmpeg: CVE-2019-12730: Use of Uninitialized Resource

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/04/2019
Created
06/07/2019
Added
06/06/2019
Modified
08/26/2020

Description

aa_read_header in libavformat/aadec.c in FFmpeg before 3.2.14 and 4.x before 4.1.4 does not check for sscanf failure and consequently allows use of uninitialized variables.

Solution(s)

  • ffmpeg-upgrade-3_2_14

References

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