CVE-2018-12459

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2018-12459 · Published 15/06/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-12459 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting ffmpeg (ffmpeg).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.0%, higher than 64.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ffmpeg ffmpeg	`= 4.0`	No fix yet

Description

An inconsistent bits-per-sample value in the ff_mpeg4_decode_picture_header function in libavcodec/mpeg4videodec.c in FFmpeg 4.0 may trigger an assertion violation while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4, leading to a denial of service.

References

FFmpeg/FFmpeg commit 2fc108f · Issue Tracking

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

ffmpeg

= 4.0

No fix yet

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