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(CVE-2018-1999012)

Vulnerability from cleanstart – Published: 2026-10-01 08:24 – Updated: 2026-10-08 14:25 – Source website

Summary

Details

Security vulnerability affects the ffmpeg4 package. 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.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://github.com/cleanstart-dev/cleanstart-secu…	ADVISORY
	https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1999012	WEB
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1999012	WEB

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CVE-2018-1999012 (GCVE-0-2018-1999012)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-07-23 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 12:47

Summary

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2350 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104896	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/9807d3976…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Date Public

2018-07-03 00:00

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