CVE-2018-13301

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13301
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-13301.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-13301
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-07-05T17:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-16T06:53:34.097272Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In FFmpeg 4.0.1, due to a missing check of a profile value before setting it, the ffmpeg4decodepictureheader function in libavcodec/mpeg4videodec.c may trigger a NULL pointer dereference while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4, leading to a denial of service.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / ffmpeg

Package

Name
ffmpeg
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ffmpeg?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7:4.0.2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:12 / ffmpeg

Package

Name
ffmpeg
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ffmpeg?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7:4.0.2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:13 / ffmpeg

Package

Name
ffmpeg
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ffmpeg?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7:4.0.2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:14 / ffmpeg

Package

Name
ffmpeg
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ffmpeg?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
7:4.0.2-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Git / git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
e049f7c24fc6aa5fc925f860e2ad940a75cfd84f
Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
2aa9047486dbff12d9e040f917e5f799ed2fd78b

Affected versions

Other

N

n0.*

n0.11-dev
n0.12-dev
n0.8

n1.*

n1.1-dev
n1.2-dev
n1.3-dev

n2.*

n2.0
n2.1-dev
n2.2-dev
n2.3-dev
n2.4-dev
n2.5-dev
n2.6-dev
n2.7-dev
n2.8-dev
n2.9-dev

n3.*

n3.1-dev
n3.2-dev
n3.3-dev
n3.4-dev
n3.5-dev

n4.*

n4.0
n4.0.1
n4.1-dev

Database specific 

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