Out-of-bounds read in FFmpeg - CVE-2018-13300
Published: July 26, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU14018
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-13300
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: ffmpeg.sourceforge.net
Affected software:
FFmpeg
FFmpeg
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper argument (AVCodecParameters) passed to the avpriv_request_sample function in the handle_eac3 function in libavformat/movenc.c. A remote attacker can supply specially crafted AVI file to MPEG4, trick the victim into converting it, trigger out-of-bounds read and cause the service to crash or possibly access arbitrary data
How to mitigate CVE-2018-13300
Update to version 4.0.2.