Use After Free Affecting ffmpeg package, versions <7:4.0.2-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-FFMPEG-5679322
  • published23 Jul 2018
  • disclosed23 Jul 2018

Introduced: 23 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-1999013  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 ffmpeg to version 7:4.0.2-1 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

FFmpeg before commit a7e032a277452366771951e29fd0bf2bd5c029f0 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the realmedia demuxer that can result in vulnerability allows attacker to read heap memory. This attack appear to be exploitable via specially crafted RM file has to be provided as input. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in a7e032a277452366771951e29fd0bf2bd5c029f0 and later.