Buffer overflow in FFmpeg - CVE-2013-0868

 

Buffer overflow in FFmpeg - CVE-2013-0868

Published: November 23, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU42325
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-2013-0868
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.

libavcodec/huffyuvdec.c in FFmpeg before 1.1.2 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via crafted Huffyuv data, related to an out-of-bounds write and (1) unchecked return codes from the init_vlc function and (2) "len==0 cases."


Affected software

FFmpeg
Gentoo Linux
openEuler
media-video/ffmpeg
ffmpeg
ffmpeg-debuginfo
ffmpeg-debugsource
libavdevice
ffmpeg-devel
ffmpeg-libs
media-video/libav

How to mitigate CVE-2013-0868

Install update from vendor's website.

media-video/ffmpeg - update to 2.6.3
ffmpeg - update to 4.2.4-4
ffmpeg-debuginfo - update to 4.2.4-4
ffmpeg-debugsource - update to 4.2.4-4
libavdevice - update to 4.2.4-4
ffmpeg-devel - update to 4.2.4-4
ffmpeg-libs - update to 4.2.4-4
media-video/libav - update to 9.17

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