CVE-2012-0858

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

The Shorten codec (shorten.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.7.x before 0.7.12 and 0.8.x before 0.8.11, and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.5, and 0.8.x before 0.8.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Shorten file, related to an "invalid free".

The Shorten codec (shorten.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.7.x before 0.7.12 and 0.8.x before 0.8.11, and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.5, and 0.8.x before 0.8.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Shorten file, related to an "invalid free".

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-08-20 18:55:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2012-08-21 14:41:00

Affected Software

FFmpeg 0.7.1

0.7.1

FFmpeg 0.7.2

0.7.2

FFmpeg 0.7.6

0.7.6

FFmpeg 0.7.7

0.7.7

FFmpeg 0.7.8

0.7.8

FFmpeg 0.7.9

0.7.9

FFmpeg 0.7.11

0.7.11

FFmpeg 0.8.5

0.8.5

FFmpeg 0.8.6

0.8.6

FFmpeg 0.8.7

0.8.7

FFmpeg 0.8.8

0.8.8

FFmpeg 0.8.10

0.8.10

libav 0.5

0.5

libav 0.5.1

0.5.1

libav 0.5.2

0.5.2

libav 0.5.3

0.5.3

libav 0.5.4

0.5.4

libav 0.5.5

0.5.5

libav 0.5.6

0.5.6

libav 0.5.7

0.5.7

libav 0.6

0.6

libav 0.6.1

0.6.1

libav 0.6.2

0.6.2

libav 0.6.3

0.6.3

libav 0.6.4

0.6.4

libav 0.6.5

0.6.5

libav 0.7

0.7

libav 0.7.1

0.7.1

libav 0.7.2

0.7.2

libav 0.7.3

0.7.3

libav 0.7.4

0.7.4

libav 0.8

0.8

libav 0.8 beta2

0.8

References

http://ffmpeg.org/

Vendor Advisory

http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commitdiff;h=204cb29b3c84a74cbcd059d353c70c8bdc567d98

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=204cb29b3c84a74cbcd059d353c70c8bdc567d98

http://libav.org/

Vendor Advisory

[oss-security] 20120214 Re: CVE Requests for FFmpeg 0.9.1

USN-1479-1

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