Out-of-Bounds Affecting libav package, versions <6:11.12-1~deb8u8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.64% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBAV-405089
  • published15 May 2018
  • disclosed15 May 2018

Introduced: 15 May 2018

CVE-2018-11102  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 libav to version 6:11.12-1~deb8u8 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libav package and not the libav package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.