NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting ffmpeg package, versions <4.0.1-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.06% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE324-FFMPEG-17299757
  • published11 Jun 2026
  • disclosed15 Jun 2018

Introduced: 15 Jun 2018

CVE-2018-12460  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.24 ffmpeg to version 4.0.1-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ffmpeg package and not the ffmpeg package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.24 relevant fixed versions and status.

libavcodec in FFmpeg 4.0 may trigger a NULL pointer dereference if the studio profile is incorrectly detected while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4, leading to a denial of service, related to idctdsp.c and mpegvideo.c.