National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0854

Overview

The dpcm_decode_frame function in libavcodec/dpcm.c in FFmpeg before 0.9.1 does not use the proper pointer after an audio API change, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=6d8e6fe9dbc365f50521cf0c4a5ffee97c970cb5

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=6d8e6fe9dbc365f50521cf0c4a5ffee97c970cb5

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://ffmpeg.org/security.html

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