CVE-2018-12460

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-06-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

libavcodec in FFmpeg 4.0 may trigger a NULL pointer dereference if the studio profile is incorrectly detected while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4, leading to a denial of service, related to idctdsp.c and mpegvideo.c.

Affected products

FFmpeg: 4.0

References

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/b3332a182f8ba33a34542e4a0370f38b914ccf7d
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/b3332a182f8ba33a34542e4a0370f38b914ccf7d

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