vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-13303: NULL Pointer Dereference

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 5, 2018
Added
Aug 30, 2018
Modified
Dec 22, 2025

Description

In FFmpeg 4.0.1, a missing check for failure of a call to init_get_bits8() in the avpriv_ac3_parse_header function in libavcodec/ac3_parser.c may trigger a NULL pointer dereference while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4, leading to a denial of service.

Solutions

alpine-linux-upgrade-ffmpegalpine-linux-upgrade-ffmpeg4
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