Improper Context Profile Maintenance in libavcodec: Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2018-13304 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

In libavcodec in FFmpeg 4.0.1, improper maintenance of the consistency between the context profile field and studio_profile in libavcodec may trigger an assertion failure while converting a crafted AVI file to MPEG4, leading to a denial of service, related to error_resilience.c, h263dec.c, and mpeg4videodec.c.

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