SB2014110303 - Buffer overflow in ffmpeg.sourceforge.net FFmpeg

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.

1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-5272)

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

libavcodec/iff.c in FFMpeg before 1.1.14, 1.2.x before 1.2.8, 2.2.x before 2.2.7, and 2.3.x before 2.3.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted iff image, which triggers an out-of-bounds array access, related to the rgb8 and rgbn formats.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=abc1fa7c5a1dca1345b9471b81cfcda00c56220d
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/16/6
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06
• https://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html