Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libav (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-LIBAV-1597292
- published12 May 2023
- disclosed10 Dec 2018
Introduced: 10 Dec 2018
CVE-2018-20001 (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 12.3, there is a floating point exception in the range_decode_culshift function (called from range_decode_bits) in libavcodec/apedec.c that will lead to remote denial of service via crafted input.