National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0859

Overview

The render_line function in the vorbis codec (vorbis.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.9.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Vorbis file, related to a large multiplier. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-3893.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=6fcf2bb8af0e7d6bb179e71e67e5fab8ef0d2ec2

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=6fcf2bb8af0e7d6bb179e71e67e5fab8ef0d2ec2

External Source: XF

Name: ffmpeg-renderline-code-exec(78925)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/78925

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1479-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1479-1

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: CONFIRM

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

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