SB2018082707 - Denial of service in FFmpeg
Published: August 27, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018082707
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Assertion failure (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-15822)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient checks for an empty audio packet by the flv_write_packet function, as defined in the libavformat/flvenc.c source code file. A local attacker can access the system and execute a specially crafted application that submits malicious input to trigger an assertion failure and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.