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CVE-2019-11338

libavcodec/hevcdec.c in FFmpeg 4.1.2 mishandles detection of duplicate first slices, which allows...

8.8 HighFix available

libavcodec/hevcdec.c in FFmpeg 3.4 and 4.1.2 mishandles detection of duplicate first slices, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and out-of-array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted HEVC data.

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
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

2.35%Down 0.9 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 8.8

libavcodec/hevcdec.c in FFmpeg 3.4 and 4.1.2 mishandles detection of duplicate first slices, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and out-of-array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted HEVC data.

Record
CVE-2019-11338
CVSS 3.1
8.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0
6.8 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness
CWE-476
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

libavcodec/hevcdec.c in FFmpeg 3.4 and 4.1.2 mishandles detection of duplicate first slices, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and out-of-array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted HEVC data.

Record
CVE-2019-11338
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2019-3019 No score

libavcodec/hevcdec.c in FFmpeg 3.4 and 4.1.2 mishandles detection of duplicate first slices, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and out-of-array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted HEVC data.

Record
EUVD-2019-3019
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-96rf-5r43-949p 8.8

libavcodec/hevcdec.c in FFmpeg 4.1.2 mishandles detection of duplicate first slices, which allows...

libavcodec/hevcdec.c in FFmpeg 4.1.2 mishandles detection of duplicate first slices, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and out-of-array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted HEVC data.

Record
GHSA-96rf-5r43-949p
CVSS 3.1
8.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness
CWE-476
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 8.8

libavcodec/hevcdec.c in FFmpeg 3.4 and 4.1.2 mishandles detection of duplicate first slices, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and out-of-array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted HEVC data.

Record
CVE-2019-11338
CVSS 3.1
8.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2019-11338 8.8

libavcodec/hevcdec.c in FFmpeg 3.4 and 4.1.2 mishandles detection of duplicate first slices, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and out-of-array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted HEVC data.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11338
CVSS 3.1
8.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2019-11338 8.8

libavcodec/hevcdec.c in FFmpeg 3.4 and 4.1.2 mishandles detection of duplicate first slices, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and out-of-array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted HEVC data.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11338
CVSS 3.1
8.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0
8.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2020:0024-1 No score

Security update for ffmpeg-4

This update for ffmpeg-4 fixes the following issues:

ffmpeg-4 was updated to version 4.0.5, fixes boo#1133153

  • CVE-2019-11339: The studio profile decoder in libavcodec/mpeg4videodec.c in FFmpeg 4.0 allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-array access) or possibly have unspecified. (bsc#1133153)
  • For other changes see /usr/share/doc/packages/libavcodec58/Changelog

Update to version 4.2.1:

  • Stable bug fix release, mainly codecs and format fixes.
  • CVE-2019-15942: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value' issue in h2645_parse (boo#1149839)

Update to FFmpeg 4.2 'Ada'

  • tpad filter
  • AV1 decoding support through libdav1d
  • dedot filter
  • chromashift and rgbashift filters
  • freezedetect filter
  • truehd_core bitstream filter
  • dhav demuxer
  • PCM-DVD encoder
  • GIF parser
  • vividas demuxer
  • hymt decoder
  • anlmdn filter
  • maskfun filter
  • hcom demuxer and decoder
  • ARBC decoder
  • libaribb24 based ARIB STD-B24 caption support (profiles A and C)
  • Support decoding of HEVC 4:4:4 content in nvdec and cuviddec
  • removed libndi-newtek
  • agm decoder
  • KUX demuxer
  • AV1 frame split bitstream filter
  • lscr decoder
  • lagfun filter
  • asoftclip filter
  • Support decoding of HEVC 4:4:4 content in vdpau
  • colorhold filter
  • xmedian filter
  • asr filter
  • showspatial multimedia filter
  • VP4 video decoder
  • IFV demuxer
  • derain filter
  • deesser filter
  • mov muxer writes tracks with unspecified language instead of English by default
  • added support for using clang to compile CUDA kernels
  • See /usr/share/doc/packages/ffmpeg-4/Changelog for the complete changelog.

Update to version 4.1.4

  • See /usr/share/doc/packages/ffmpeg-4/Changelog for the complete changelog.
  • Enable runtime enabling for fdkaac via --enable-libfdk-aac-dlopen

Update to version 4.1.3:

  • Updates and bug fixes for codecs, filters and formats. [boo#1133153, boo#1133155, CVE-2019-11338, CVE-2019-11339]

Update to version 4.1.2:

  • Updates and bug fixes for codecs, filters and formats.

Update to version 4.1.1:

  • Various filter and codec fixes and enhancements.
  • configure: Add missing xlib dependency for VAAPI X11 code.
  • For complete changelog, see /usr/share/doc/packages/ffmpeg-4/Changelog
  • enable AV1 support on x86_64

Update ffmpeg to 4.1:

  • Lots of filter updates as usual: deblock, tmix, aplify, fftdnoiz, aderivative, aintegral, pal75bars, pal100bars, adeclick, adeclip, lensfun (wrapper), colorconstancy, 1D LUT filter (lut1d), cue, acue, transpose_npp, amultiply, Block-Matching 3d (bm3d) denoising filter, acrossover filter, audio denoiser as afftdn filter, sinc audio filter source, chromahold, setparams, vibrance, xstack, (a)graphmonitor filter yadif_cuda filter.
  • AV1 parser
  • Support for AV1 in MP4
  • PCM VIDC decoder and encoder
  • libtensorflow backend for DNN based filters like srcnn
  • -- The following only enabled in third-party builds:
  • ATRAC9 decoder
  • AVS2 video decoder via libdavs2
  • IMM4 video decoder
  • Brooktree ProSumer video decoder
  • MatchWare Screen Capture Codec decoder
  • WinCam Motion Video decoder
  • RemotelyAnywhere Screen Capture decoder
  • AVS2 video encoder via libxavs2
  • ILBC decoder
  • SER demuxer
  • Decoding S12M timecode in H264
  • For complete changelog, see https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/shortlog/n4.1

Update ffmpeg to 4.0.3:

  • CVE-2018-13305: Added a missing check for negative values of mqaunt variable (boo#1100345).
Record
openSUSE-SU-2020:0024-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10754-1 No score

ffmpeg-4-4.4-5.2 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the ffmpeg-4-4.4-5.2 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10754-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-3967-1 No score

FFmpeg vulnerabilities

It was discovered that FFmpeg contained multiple security issues when handling certain multimedia files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted multimedia file, an attacker could cause a denial of service via application crash.

Record
USN-3967-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-4431-1 No score

ffmpeg vulnerabilities

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly verified empty audio packets or HEVC data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service via a crafted file. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, as it was already fixed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. For more information see: https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3967-1 (CVE-2018-15822, CVE-2019-11338)

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled sscanf failures. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-12730)

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain WEBM files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive data or other unspecified impact. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-13312)

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain AVI files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-13390)

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-17539)

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain input during decoding of VQA files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information or other unspecified impact. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-17542)

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain JPEG files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information or other unspecified impact. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-12284)

It was discovered that FFmpeg incorrectly handled certain M3U8 files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information or other unspecified impact. (CVE-2020-13904)

Record
USN-4431-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
ffmpeg
Debian:12
before 7:4.1.3-1
7:4.1.3-1
ffmpeg
Debian:13
before 7:4.1.3-1
7:4.1.3-1
ffmpeg
Debian:14
before 7:4.1.3-1
7:4.1.3-1
libav
Debian:8
before 6:11.12-1~deb8u7, 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~deb8u56:11.12-1~deb8u66:11.3-16:11.3-1+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~deb8u7
ffmpeg
Debian:9
before 7:3.2.14-1~deb9u1, plus listed versions
7:3.2.10-1~deb9u17:3.2.10-1~deb9u1~bpo8+17:3.2.11-1~deb9u17:3.2.12-1~deb9u17:3.2.5-1
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7:3.2.6-17:3.2.7-1~deb9u17:3.2.8-1~deb9u17:3.2.9-1~deb9u1
7:3.2.14-1~deb9u1
ffmpeg
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1, 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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7:2.8.4-1ubuntu17:2.8.4-1ubuntu27:2.8.4-1ubuntu37:2.8.4-1ubuntu47:2.8.6-1ubuntu17:2.8.6-1ubuntu27:2.8.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.17:2.8.10-0ubuntu0.16.04.17:2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.17:2.8.14-0ubuntu0.16.04.17:2.8.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1
ffmpeg
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
before 7:3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1, plus listed versions
7:3.3.4-27:3.3.4-2build37:3.4-2ubuntu27:3.4-47:3.4-4build1
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7:3.4.1-17:3.4.1-1build17:3.4.2-17:3.4.2-1build17:3.4.2-27:3.4.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
7:3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ffmpeg
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
before 7:3.4.8-0ubuntu0.2, plus listed versions
7:3.3.4-27:3.3.4-2build37:3.4-2ubuntu27:3.4-47:3.4-4build1
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7:3.4.1-17:3.4.1-1build17:3.4.2-17:3.4.2-1build17:3.4.2-27:3.4.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.17:3.4.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
7:3.4.8-0ubuntu0.2
ffmpeg
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
before 7:4.2.4-1ubuntu0.1, plus listed versions
7:4.1.4-1build27:4.2.1-27:4.2.1-2ubuntu17:4.2.2-1build17:4.2.2-1ubuntu1
7:4.2.4-1ubuntu0.1
ffmpeg-4
SUSE:Package Hub 12 SP2
before 4.2.1-bp151.5.3.1
4.2.1-bp151.5.3.1
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
ffmpeg-4
SUSE:Package Hub 15
before 4.2.1-bp151.5.3.1
4.2.1-bp151.5.3.1
ffmpeg-4
SUSE:Package Hub 15 SP1
before 4.2.1-bp151.5.3.1
4.2.1-bp151.5.3.1
ffmpeg-4
openSUSE:Leap 15.1
before 4.2.1-bp151.5.3.1
4.2.1-bp151.5.3.1
ffmpeg-4
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 4.4-5.2
4.4-5.2

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

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

In short

CVE-2019-11338 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) in Ffmpeg, published April 18, 2019. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.35%, the 83rd percentile. Fixed in ffmpeg 7:4.1.3-1.

References

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