Use After Free Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [,4.0.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (47th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2369022
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jul 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jul 2018

CVE-2018-1999013  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 4.0.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. FFmpeg before commit a7e032a277452366771951e29fd0bf2bd5c029f0 contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the realmedia demuxer that can result in vulnerability allows attacker to read heap memory. This attack appear to be exploitable via specially crafted RM file has to be provided as input. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in a7e032a277452366771951e29fd0bf2bd5c029f0 and later.

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