Buffer overflow in FFmpeg - CVE-2013-0866
Published: November 23, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42323
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-0866
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 execute arbitrary code.
The aac_decode_init function in libavcodec/aacdec.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 number of channels in an AAC file, which triggers an out-of-bounds array access.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-0866
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=47e462eecc0a47ad40f59376199f93f227e21d13
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=c459c7b23efffab762560e41ad6a2c0dbbfd4915
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2793
- http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06