Buffer overflow in FFmpeg - CVE-2015-3395
Published: July 1, 2017 / Updated: June 8, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU110590
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-3395
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: ffmpeg.sourceforge.net
Affected software:
FFmpeg
FFmpeg
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
The msrle_decode_pal4 function in msrledec.c in Libav before 10.7 and 11.x before 11.4 and FFmpeg before 2.0.7, 2.2.x before 2.2.15, 2.4.x before 2.4.8, 2.5.x before 2.5.6, and 2.6.x before 2.6.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted image, related to a pixel pointer, which triggers an out-of-bounds array access.
How to mitigate CVE-2015-3395
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=f7e1367f58263593e6cee3c282f7277d7ee9d553
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3288
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74433
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2944-1
- https://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=blob;f=Changelog;hb=refs/tags/v11.4
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-08
- https://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html