National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0847

Overview

Heap-based buffer overflow in the avfilter_filter_samples function in libavfilter/avfilter.c in FFmpeg before 0.9.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted media file.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: MLIST

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

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/14/4

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20120201 Re: CVE Requests for FFmpeg 0.9.1

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/01/11

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=ae21776207e8a2bbe268e7c9e203f7599dd87ddb

Hyperlink:http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=ae21776207e8a2bbe268e7c9e203f7599dd87ddb

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://ffmpeg.org/security.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://ffmpeg.org/security.html