Buffer overflow in FFmpeg - CVE-2013-0852

 

Buffer overflow in FFmpeg - CVE-2013-0852

Published: December 7, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU42287
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-0852
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 execute arbitrary code.

The parse_picture_segment function in libavcodec/pgssubdec.c in FFmpeg before 1.1 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via crafted RLE data, which triggers an out-of-bounds array access.


Affected software

FFmpeg
Gentoo Linux
media-video/libav

How to mitigate CVE-2013-0852

Install update from vendor's website.

media-video/libav - update to 9.17

External References

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