Input validation error in FFmpeg - CVE-2012-0853
Published: August 20, 2012 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32798
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0853
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
The decodeTonalComponents function in the Actrac3 codec (atrac3.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.7.x before 0.7.12, and 0.8.x before 0.8.11; and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.5, and 0.8.x before 0.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large component count in an Atrac 3 file.
Affected software
FFmpeg
Gentoo Linux
ffmpeg (Alpine package)
Gentoo Linux
ffmpeg (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2012-0853
Install update from vendor's website.
FFmpeg - update to 0.7.12
ffmpeg (Alpine package) - update to 0.8.11-r0
ffmpeg (Alpine package) - update to 0.8.11-r0
External References
- http://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/ticket/780
- http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commit;h=c509f4f74713b035a06f79cb4d00e708f5226bc5
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=9af6abdc17deb95c9b1f1d9242ba49b8b5e0b016
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=c509f4f74713b035a06f79cb4d00e708f5226bc5
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49089
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/14/4
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1479-1