Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU41983

Buffer overflow in FFmpeg - CVE-2014-2263

Published: March 1, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU41983

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-2014-2263

CWE-ID: CWE-119

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 mpegts_write_pmt function in the MPEG2 transport stream (aka DVB) muxer (libavformat/mpegtsenc.c) in FFmpeg, possibly 2.1 and earlier, allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact and vectors, which trigger an out-of-bounds write.

Affected software

FFmpeg
Gentoo Linux
media-video/ffmpeg

How to mitigate CVE-2014-2263

Install update from vendor's website.

media-video/ffmpeg - update to 2.6.3

External References

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=842b6c14bc
http://secunia.com/advisories/56971
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65560
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029850
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91174
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06

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