Buffer overflow in FFmpeg - CVE-2013-0865
Published: November 23, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42322
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-2013-0865
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 vqa_decode_chunk function in libavcodec/vqavideo.c in FFmpeg before 1.0.4 and 1.1.x before 1.1.2 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via a large (1) cbp0 or (2) cbpz chunk in Westwood Studios VQA Video file, which triggers an out-of-bounds write.
Affected software
FFmpeg
Gentoo Linux
media-video/ffmpeg
Gentoo Linux
media-video/ffmpeg
How to mitigate CVE-2013-0865
Install update from vendor's website.
media-video/ffmpeg - update to 2.6.3
External References
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=08e2c7a45f82b897a285548c257972eb1ad352c5
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=f3d16706060ab6ae6dc78f15359fab3fd87c9495
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2855
- http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06