CVE-2018-13303

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13303
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-13303.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-13303
Downstream
Published
2018-07-05T17:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-28T10:07:46.825458Z
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, a missing check for failure of a call to initgetbits8() in the avprivac3parseheader function in libavcodec/ac3parser.c may trigger a NULL pointer dereference while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4, leading to a denial of service.

References

Affected packages

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

Git / github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
00e8181bd97c834fe60751b0c511d4bb97875f78

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.*

n4.1-dev

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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    {
        "digest": {
            "length": 375.0,
            "function_hash": "142391142906413682480041211024204642092"
        },
        "target": {
            "function": "avpriv_ac3_parse_header",
            "file": "libavcodec/ac3_parser.c"
        },
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "deprecated": false,
        "source": "https://github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg/commit/00e8181bd97c834fe60751b0c511d4bb97875f78",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "id": "CVE-2018-13303-44c73212"
    },
    {
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
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                "43197743373531770406142050929992758697",
                "336388221455771699703553060708214641660",
                "184902950246473843971472263661582995389"
            ]
        },
        "target": {
            "file": "libavcodec/ac3_parser.c"
        },
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "deprecated": false,
        "source": "https://github.com/ffmpeg/ffmpeg/commit/00e8181bd97c834fe60751b0c511d4bb97875f78",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "id": "CVE-2018-13303-a1c2a195"
    }
]