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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2018-13301)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

This update for ffmpeg fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed: CVE-2019-17542: Fixed a heap-buffer overflow in vqa_decode_chunk due to an out-of-array access (bsc#1154064).

CVE-2019-12730: Fixed an uninitialized use of variables due to an improper check (bsc#1137526).

CVE-2019-9718: Fixed a denial of service in the subtitle decode (bsc#1129715).

CVE-2018-13301: Fixed a denial of service while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4 (bsc#1100352).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for ffmpeg fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2019-17542: Fixed a heap-buffer overflow in vqa_decode_chunk due to an out-of-array access (bsc#1154064).

CVE-2019-12730: Fixed an uninitialized use of variables due to an improper check (bsc#1137526).

CVE-2019-9718: Fixed a denial of service in the subtitle decode (bsc#1129715).

CVE-2018-13301: Fixed a denial of service while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4 (bsc#1100352).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254210	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-13301	Nessus	Misc.	medium
138253	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ffmpeg (SUSE-SU-2019:3184-2)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
131756	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ffmpeg (SUSE-SU-2019:3184-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical

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