CVE-2018-1999012 describes an infinite loop vulnerability (CWE-835) in FFmpeg's PVA format demuxer, affecting versions prior to commit 9807d3976be0e92e4ece3b4b1701be894cd7c2e1. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) can be triggered by processing a specially crafted PVA file, leading to a denial-of-service condition through excessive CPU and RAM consumption. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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