CVE-2018-11102 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2018-11102?

CVE-2018-11102 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Libav Libav, published on 15 May 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in Libav 12.3. A read access violation in the mov_probe function in libavformat/mov.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), as demonstrated by avconv.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-11102?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Libav Libav.

How do I fix CVE-2018-11102?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2018-11102 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-11102 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Libav Libav

• CVE-2014-3984 Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Libav before 0.8.12 allow remote attackers to have unknown impact and vectors. Critical 10.0
• CVE-2017-9051 Null dereference in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-4609 Integer overflow in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2019-9719 Memory corruption in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2018-5766 Memory corruption in n/a High 8.8

All Libav Libav vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-56gc-q6h5-877j, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11102.