Vigil@nce - Libav: denial of service via range_decode_culshift
December 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on
client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 06/12/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a fatal error via range_decode_culshift()
of Libav, in order to trigger a denial of service.
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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Libav-denial-of-service-via-range-decode-culshift-31077