Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libav  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-LIBAV-1587744
  • published12 May 2023
  • disclosed18 Jan 2018

Introduced: 18 Jan 2018

CVE-2018-5766  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libav package and not the libav package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In Libav through 12.2, there is an invalid memcpy in the av_packet_ref function of libavcodec/avpacket.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted avi file.