PT-2018-6769 · FFmpeg · Libav

Published 2018-03-22 · Updated 2018-04-18 · CVE-2017-18243

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 12.2

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a segmentation fault, by providing a crafted file. This is due to a problem in the unpack parse unit function in libavcodec/dirac parser.c.

Recommendations: For Libav version 12.2, consider updating to a newer version that contains a fix for this issue, as the current version is affected. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-18243

Affected Products

Libav

References · 6

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-18243 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18243 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18243 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-18243 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18243 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1088 · Note