7.1

CVE-2018-1999012: ffmpeg Infinite Loop

CVSS: 7.1v2.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2018-1999012DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1999012CGA-7hh6-49ff-pv5q
Published 23-07-2018Last modified 05-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2018-1999012 is a high (CVSS 7.1) Infinite Loop vulnerability in ffmpeg. EPSS estimates a 2.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
29/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.1/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
2.13%
0%100%
Low · -0.04 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 1
DLA-1740-1DSA-4249-1SUSE-SU-2018:2305-1

Timeline

  1. 23-07-2018
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 05-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.13%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

82%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

-0.04 pp

From 2.17% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
2.13%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu7 products
  • chromium-browserAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • ffmpeg< 7:2.8.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • gst-libav1.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • kinoAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • libavAll versions (No fix recorded)
Chainguard4 products
  • torchaudio-ffmpeg-tarballsAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • torchaudio-ffmpeg-tarballs-4.4.4All versions (No fix recorded)
  • torchaudio-ffmpeg-tarballs-5.0.3All versions (No fix recorded)
  • torchaudio-ffmpeg-tarballs-6.0All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
  • ffmpeg< 7:4.0.2-1
Ffmpeg1 product

4 vendors · 13 products

References

6 links