Buffer overflow in Libav - CVE-2018-11102
Published: May 15, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU37133
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-11102
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Libav
Affected software:
Libav
Libav
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
An issue was discovered in Libav 12.3. A read access violation in the mov_probe function in libavformat/mov.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), as demonstrated by avconv.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-11102
Install update from vendor's website.