Reachable Assertion in FFmpeg - CVE-2018-13304
Published: July 5, 2018 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32041
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-13304
CWE-ID: CWE-617
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
FFmpeg
ffmpeg (Alpine package)
ffmpeg (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2018-13304
Install update from vendor's website.
ffmpeg (Alpine package) - update to 4.1-r0