CVE-2018-20001

NameCVE-2018-20001
DescriptionIn Libav 12.3, there is a floating point exception in the range_decode_culshift function (called from range_decode_bits) in libavcodec/apedec.c that will lead to remote denial of service via crafted input.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
libav (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)6:11.12-1~deb8u9vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
libavsourcewheezy(unfixed)end-of-life
libavsource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

[jessie] - libav <postponed> (not reproducible, requested more info from finder)
https://bugzilla.libav.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1141

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