National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0855

Overview

Heap-based buffer overflow in the get_sot function in the J2K decoder (j2k.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.9.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors related to the curtileno variable.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=3eedf9f716733b3b4c5205726d2c1ca52b3d3d78

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=3eedf9f716733b3b4c5205726d2c1ca52b3d3d78

External Source: XF

Name: ffmpeg-getsot-bo(78929)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/78929

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

Type: Advisory

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