Integer overflow in FFmpeg - CVE-2024-36619

 

Integer overflow in FFmpeg - CVE-2024-36619

Published: January 13, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU102574
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-36619
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow within the WAVARC decoder of the libavcodec library. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger an integer overflow and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

FFmpeg
Ubuntu
openEuler
ffmpeg (Ubuntu package)
ffmpeg
ffmpeg-debuginfo
ffmpeg-debugsource
ffmpeg-devel
ffmpeg-libs
libavdevice

How to mitigate CVE-2024-36619

Install updates from vendor's website.

FFmpeg - update to 6.1.2
ffmpeg (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1+esm12, 7:3.4.11-0ubuntu0.1+esm10, 7:4.2.7-0ubuntu0.1+esm10, 7:4.4.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.1+esm9, 7:6.1.1-3ubuntu5+esm5
ffmpeg - update to 6.1.1-18
ffmpeg-debuginfo - update to 6.1.1-18
ffmpeg-debugsource - update to 6.1.1-18
ffmpeg-devel - update to 6.1.1-18
ffmpeg-libs - update to 6.1.1-18
libavdevice - update to 6.1.1-18

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