Use of Uninitialized Resource The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ffmpeg (opens in a new tab)
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- published4 Jun 2019
- disclosed4 Jun 2019
Introduced: 4 Jun 2019
CVE-2019-12730 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ffmpeg package and not the ffmpeg package as distributed by Ubuntu.
aa_read_header in libavformat/aadec.c in FFmpeg before 3.2.14 and 4.x before 4.1.4 does not check for sscanf failure and consequently allows use of uninitialized variables.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-12730
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-12730
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/30
- https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/9b4004c054964a49c7ba44583f4cee22486dd8f2
- https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/shortlog/n4.1.4
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4502
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-12730
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-65
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/ed188f6dcdf0935c939ed813cf8745d50742014b
- https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/compare/a97ea53...ba11e40
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109317
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4431-1/