PT-2018-15229 · Libav · Libav

Published 2018-12-10 · Updated 2019-01-03 · CVE-2018-20001

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Libav version 12.3

Description The issue is related to a floating point exception in the range decode culshift function, which is called from range decode bits in libavcodec/apedec.c. This can lead to a remote denial of service when the software processes crafted input.

Recommendations For Libav version 12.3, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-20001

Affected Products

Libav

References · 6

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1141 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20001 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20001 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20001 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-20001 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20001 · Security Note