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TI-2018-16152 Aliases CVE-2018-1999011GHSA-27p5-8v7h-25pf

FFmpeg before commit 2b46ebdbff1d8dec7a3d8ea280a612b91a582869 contains a Buffer Overflow…

Priority MEDIUM 45CWE-119Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-119 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

FFmpeg before commit 2b46ebdbff1d8dec7a3d8ea280a612b91a582869 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in asf_o format demuxer that can result in heap-buffer-overflow that may result in remote code execution. This attack appears to be exploitable via specially crafted ASF file that has to be provided as input to FFmpeg. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2b46ebdbff1d8dec7a3d8ea280a612b91a582869 and later.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.04191 90th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*up to 4.0.1VulnerableFFmpeg
  • cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions up to 4.0.1 Vulnerable ·FFmpeg

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2018-1999011
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-27p5-8v7h-25pf

References

Patch 1

Advisory 1

Other 1

  • TI-2025-19015 FFmpeg git-master before commit d5873b was discovered to contain a memory leak in the component libavutil/iamf.c. CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2024-21238 FFmpeg 7.0 contains a heap-buffer-overflow at libavfilter/vf_tiltandshift.c:189:5 in copy_column. CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.4
  • TI-2023-06050 Ffmpeg: null pointer dereference in ffmpeg hls parsing CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2023-28420 Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Ffmpeg v.N113007-g8d24a28d06 allows a local attacker to… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0
  • TI-2023-27357 FFmpeg v.n6.1-3-g466799d4f5 allows a heap-based buffer overflow via the… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0
  • TI-2023-27044 Buffer Overflow vulnerability in FFmpeg version n6.1-3-g466799d4f5, allows a local… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0
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Sources

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