CVE-2012-6615

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html "CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference" AC:M for notation of file in bug report " ffmpeg crashes reproducibly when converting files with some subtitles. i've seen the crash with self-compiled ffmpeg 1.0 as well as the Mac OS X binary (linked to from the hompage) for 1.0.1. download the sample file: ?https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7221986/ffmpeg-bug.mkv"

The ff_ass_split_override_codes function in libavcodec/ass_split.c in FFmpeg before 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via a subtitle dialog without text.

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html "CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference" AC:M for notation of file in bug report " ffmpeg crashes reproducibly when converting files with some subtitles. i've seen the crash with self-compiled ffmpeg 1.0 as well as the Mac OS X binary (linked to from the hompage) for 1.0.1. download the sample file: ?https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7221986/ffmpeg-bug.mkv"

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-12-24 20:55:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-12-26 15:36:00

Affected Software

FFmpeg 1.0

1.0

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