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CVE-2018-1999012

FFmpeg before commit 9807d3976be0e92e4ece3b4b1701be894cd7c2e1 contains a CWE-835: Infinite loop...

6.5 MediumFix available

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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

2.13%Up 1.3 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 6.5

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.

Record
CVE-2018-1999012
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0
7.1 HighAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weakness
CWE-835
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

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.

Record
CVE-2018-1999012
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2018-10707 No score

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.

Record
EUVD-2018-10707
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-pvhq-7xgc-xmjm 6.5

FFmpeg before commit 9807d3976be0e92e4ece3b4b1701be894cd7c2e1 contains a CWE-835: Infinite loop...

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.

Record
GHSA-pvhq-7xgc-xmjm
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-835
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2018-1999012 6.5

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.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2018-1999012
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-03
OSV 6.5

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.

Record
CVE-2018-1999012
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-07
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2018-1999012 6.5

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.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1999012
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2018-1999012 6.5

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.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1999012
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2018:2305-1 No score

Security update for ffmpeg

This update for ffmpeg fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2018-13302: Fixed out of array access issue (bsc#1100356).
  • CVE-2018-1999010: Fixed multiple out of array access vulnerabilities in the mms protocol that could result in accessing out of bound data via specially crafted input files (bnc#1102899)
  • CVE-2018-1999011: Fixed a heap buffer overflow in asf_o format demuxer that could result in remote code execution (bnc#1102689)
  • CVE-2018-1999012: Fixed an infinite loop vulnerability in pva format demuxer that could result in excessive amount of ressource allocation like CPU an RAM (CVE-2018-1999012 bnc#1102688).
  • CVE-2018-1999013: Fixed an use-after-free vulnerability in the realmedia demuxer that could allow remote attackers to read heap memory (bnc#1102687)
Record
SUSE-SU-2018:2305-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.10
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.11
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.12
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.13
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.14
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.15
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.16
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.17
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.18
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.19
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.20
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.21
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.22
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.23
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg
Alpine:v3.24
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg4
Alpine:v3.16
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg4
Alpine:v3.17
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg4
Alpine:v3.18
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg4
Alpine:v3.19
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg4
Alpine:v3.20
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg4
Alpine:v3.21
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg4
Alpine:v3.22
 before 4.0.2-r0
4.0.2-r0
ffmpeg
Debian:12
 before 7:4.0.2-1
7:4.0.2-1
ffmpeg
Debian:13
 before 7:4.0.2-1
7:4.0.2-1
ffmpeg
Debian:14
 before 7:4.0.2-1
7:4.0.2-1
libav
Debian:8
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
 before 6:11.12-1~deb8u6, plus listed versions
6:11.11-1~deb8u16:11.12-1~deb8u16:11.12-1~deb8u26:11.12-1~deb8u36:11.12-1~deb8u4
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6:11.12-1~deb8u56:11.3-16:11.3-1+deb8u16:11.3-26:11.3-36:11.4-16:11.4-1~deb8u16:11.4-26:11.4-2+x32.16:11.6-1~deb8u16:11.7-1~deb8u16:11.8-1~deb8u16:11.9-1~deb8u1
6:11.12-1~deb8u6
ffmpeg
Debian:9
From an advisory covering 11 CVEs
 before 7:3.2.11-1~deb9u1, plus listed versions
7:3.2.10-1~deb9u17:3.2.10-1~deb9u1~bpo8+17:3.2.5-17:3.2.6-17:3.2.7-1~deb9u17:3.2.8-1~deb9u17:3.2.9-1~deb9u1
7:3.2.11-1~deb9u1
ffmpeg
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
 before 3.4.2-4.5.1
3.4.2-4.5.1
ffmpeg
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15
From an advisory covering 5 CVEs
 before 3.4.2-4.5.1
3.4.2-4.5.1
libav
Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
6:0.8.7-1ubuntu26:9.10-1ubuntu16:9.10-1ubuntu26:9.10-1ubuntu56:9.10-1ubuntu6
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6:9.10-1ubuntu76:9.11-2ubuntu16:9.11-2ubuntu26:9.13-0ubuntu0.14.04.16:9.14-0ubuntu0.14.04.16:9.16-0ubuntu0.14.04.16:9.18-0ubuntu0.14.04.16:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.16:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1
 None known
ffmpeg
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
 before 7:2.8.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, plus listed versions
7:2.7.2-1build17:2.8.1-1ubuntu17:2.8.2-1ubuntu17:2.8.3-17:2.8.4-1
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7:2.8.4-1ubuntu17:2.8.4-1ubuntu27:2.8.4-1ubuntu37:2.8.4-1ubuntu47:2.8.6-1ubuntu17:2.8.6-1ubuntu27:2.8.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.17:2.8.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.17:2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.17:2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
7:2.8.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
oxide-qt
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
1.9.5-0ubuntu11.10.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.11.10.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.21.11.3-0ubuntu31.11.4-0ubuntu1
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1.11.5-0ubuntu11.12.5-0ubuntu11.12.6-0ubuntu11.12.7-0ubuntu11.13.6-0ubuntu11.14.7-0ubuntu11.14.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.15.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.15.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.16.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.17.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.17.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.18.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.18.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.19.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.20.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.21.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
 None known
gst-libav1.0
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
1.6.0-11.6.0-21.6.1-11.6.2-11.7.1-1
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1.7.2-11.7.90-11.8.0-11.8.1-1~ubuntu11.8.2-1~ubuntu11.8.3-1ubuntu0.11.8.3-1ubuntu0.2
 None known
kino
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
1.3.4-2.1build2
 None known
gst-libav1.0
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
1.12.2-11.12.3-11.12.4-11.13.91-11.14.0-11.14.1-1~ubuntu18.04.11.14.4-0ubuntu1~ubuntu18.04.11.14.5-0ubuntu1~18.04.1
 None known
kino
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
1.3.4-2.31.3.4-2.4
 None known
qtwebengine-opensource-src
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
5.9.1+dfsg-45.9.1+dfsg-4ubuntu15.9.2+dfsg-2ubuntu15.9.3+dfsg-0ubuntu15.9.4+dfsg-0ubuntu15.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu25.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu2+esm1
 None known
gst-libav1.0
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
1.16.1-11.16.2-11.16.2-2
 None known
kino
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
1.3.4+dfsg0-11.3.4+dfsg0-1build1
 None known
qtwebengine-opensource-src
Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
5.12.4+dfsg-1ubuntu15.12.4+dfsg-1ubuntu35.12.5+dfsg-3ubuntu15.12.5+dfsg-6ubuntu25.12.5+dfsg-7
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5.12.5+dfsg-7build15.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu15.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1.15.12.8+dfsg-0ubuntu1.1+esm1
 None known
chromium-browser
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
1:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu21:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu2.22.04.1
 None known
gst-libav1.0
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
1.18.5-11.20.0-11.20.1-11.20.3-0ubuntu1
 None known
kino
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
1.3.4+dfsg0-1build21.3.4+dfsg0-1.1
 None known
qtwebengine-opensource-src
Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
5.15.6+dfsg-15.15.6+dfsg-25.15.7+dfsg-25.15.8+dfsg-15.15.8+dfsg-1build1
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5.15.8+dfsg-1build25.15.8+dfsg-25.15.9+dfsg-15.15.9+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
 None known
chromium-browser
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
1:85.0.4183.83-0ubuntu32:1snap1-0ubuntu12:1snap1-0ubuntu2
 None known
gst-libav1.0
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
1.22.5-11.22.6-11.22.7-11.22.8-11.22.10-11.24.1-11.24.1-1build1
 None known
qtwebengine-opensource-src
Ubuntu:Pro:24.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
5.15.15+dfsg-25.15.15+dfsg-2build25.15.15+dfsg-2ubuntu15.15.16+dfsg-15.15.16+dfsg-1ubuntu25.15.16+dfsg-1ubuntu45.15.16+dfsg-35.15.16+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1~esm1
 None known
chromium-browser
Ubuntu:25.10
 All versions, plus listed versions
2:1snap1-0ubuntu3
 None known
gst-libav1.0
Ubuntu:25.10
 All versions, plus listed versions
1.26.0-11.26.1-11.26.2-11.26.3-11.26.4-11.26.5-11.26.6-1
 None known
qtwebengine-opensource-src
Ubuntu:25.10
 All versions, plus listed versions
5.15.18+dfsg-25.15.18+dfsg-2build15.15.19+dfsg-15.15.19+dfsg2-1
 None known
chromium-browser
Ubuntu:26.10
 All versions, plus listed versions
2:1snap1-0ubuntu4
 None known
gst-libav1.0
Ubuntu:26.10
 All versions, plus listed versions
1.28.2-11.28.3-11.28.4-1build11.28.5-11.28.6-11.28.7-1
 None known
qtwebengine-opensource-src
Ubuntu:26.10
 All versions, plus listed versions
5.15.19+dfsg2-45.15.19+dfsg2-65.15.19+dfsg2-7
 None known
chromium-browser
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
2:1snap1-0ubuntu32:1snap1-0ubuntu4
 None known
gst-libav1.0
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
1.26.6-11.27.2-11.27.2-1build11.27.90-11.28.0-11.28.1-11.28.2-1
 None known
qtwebengine-opensource-src
Ubuntu:Pro:26.04:LTS
 All versions, plus listed versions
5.15.19+dfsg2-15.15.19+dfsg2-1build15.15.19+dfsg2-25.15.19+dfsg2-35.15.19+dfsg2-45.15.19+dfsg2-4ubuntu0.1~esm1
 None known

History

History
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affected, facts
affected, aliases, referencesOSV
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2018-1999012 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Ffmpeg, published July 17, 2018. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.13%, the 82nd percentile. Fixed in ffmpeg 4.0.2-r0.

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