VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2018-5766
Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted avi file.
HIGH 8.8EPSS 2.47%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.47%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
In Libav through 12.2, there is an invalid memcpy in the av_packet_ref function of libavcodec/avpacket.c. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted avi file.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.47% probability · 84th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- libav/libav
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102793Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1112Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00000.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102793Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1112Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00000.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.