National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0858
Original release date:08/20/2012
Last revised:08/21/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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".
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=204cb29b3c84a74cbcd059d353c70c8bdc567d98
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commitdiff;h=204cb29b3c84a74cbcd059d353c70c8bdc567d98
Type: Patch Information; Exploit
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-1479-1
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120214 Re: CVE Requests for FFmpeg 0.9.1
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://libav.org/
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://ffmpeg.org/
Type: Advisory
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)