CVE-2018-13301

6.5 mediumEPSS 1.4%

Medium (6.5) in ffmpeg ffmpeg. EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In FFmpeg 4.0.1, due to a missing check of a profile value before setting it, the ff_mpeg4_decode_picture_header function in libavcodec/mpeg4videodec.c may trigger a NULL pointer dereference while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4, leading to a denial of service.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 72% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-476
Published: 2018-07-05
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

ffmpeg:ffmpeg

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104675
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/2aa9047486dbff12d9e040f917e5f799ed2fd78b
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104675
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/2aa9047486dbff12d9e040f917e5f799ed2fd78b

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