National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0947
Original release date:08/20/2012
Last revised:11/27/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Heap-based buffer overflow in the vqa_decode_chunk function in the VQA codec (vqavideo.c) in libavcodec in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.6, and 0.8.x before 0.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VQA media file in which the image size is not a multiple of the block size.
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.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commit;h=58b2e0f0f2fc96c1158e04f8aba95cbe6157a1a3
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libav/+bug/980963
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-1479-1
External Source: BID
Name: 53389
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120503 Security issue in libav/ffmpeg
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2471
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 49089
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://libav.org/