SB2018042118 - Reachable Assertion in ffmpeg (Alpine package)
Published: April 21, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018042118
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Reachable Assertion (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-13304)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
In libavcodec in FFmpeg 4.0.1, improper maintenance of the consistency between the context profile field and studio_profile in libavcodec may trigger an assertion failure while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4, leading to a denial of service, related to error_resilience.c, h263dec.c, and mpeg4videodec.c.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=d8d38dabc6e30c901eb6bd6627d8337849d7c041
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=cf78a820406ae4481e937bc2fba252ff79c89a09
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=859fd99d06049c009c8b745626511cd681061a99
- https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=67e1fa48160c4e435007390d685bdfacd84ea1f0