CVE-2018-12460 (GCVE-0-2018-12460)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-15 15:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:43
VLAI
Summary
libavcodec in FFmpeg 4.0 may trigger a NULL pointer dereference if the studio profile is incorrectly detected while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4, leading to a denial of service, related to idctdsp.c and mpegvideo.c.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
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