Medium
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Libav 12.3. Division by zero in range_decode_culshift in libavcodec/apedec.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), as demonstrated by avconv.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-14443
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Libav 12.3. Division by zero in range_decode_culshift in libavcodec/apedec.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash), as demonstrated by avconv.
osv:CVE-2019-14443
Complete source record
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