NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mplayer  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-MPLAYER-651051
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed5 Jul 2018

Introduced: 5 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-13303  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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 mplayer package and not the mplayer package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In FFmpeg 4.0.1, a missing check for failure of a call to init_get_bits8() in the avpriv_ac3_parse_header function in libavcodec/ac3_parser.c may trigger a NULL pointer dereference while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4, leading to a denial of service.