CVE-2018-1999012 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 6.5 Published 23 Jul 2018 Updated 5 Aug 2024

Attackers can cause excessive CPU and RAM consumption via specially crafted PVA files, leading to denial of service in FFmpeg.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: A user has to click or open something
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2018-1999012?

CVE-2018-1999012 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Ffmpeg Ffmpeg, published on 23 Jul 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

FFmpeg before commit 9807d3976be0e92e4ece3b4b1701be894cd7c2e1 contains a CWE-835: Infinite loop vulnerability in pva format demuxer that can result in a Vulnerability that allows attackers to consume excessive amount of resources like CPU and RAM. This attack appear to be exploitable via specially crafted PVA file has to be provided as input. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 9807d3976be0e92e4ece3b4b1701be894cd7c2e1 and later.

Weakness: CWE-835

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1999012?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ffmpeg Ffmpeg.

How do I fix CVE-2018-1999012?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2018-1999012 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1999012 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as CLEANSTART-2024-LZ69519, DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1999012, GHSA-pvhq-7xgc-xmjm, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1999012.