Buffer overflow in Libav and FFmpeg - CVE-2012-0852
Published: August 20, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU43704
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0852
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 read and manipulate data.
The adpcm_decode_frame function in adpcm.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.9.1 and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.6, and 0.8.x before 0.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an ADPCM file with the number of channels not equal to two.
Affected software
Libav
FFmpeg
Gentoo Linux
FFmpeg
Gentoo Linux
How to mitigate CVE-2012-0852
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://ffmpeg.org/security.html
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=608708009f69ba4cecebf05120c696167494c897
- http://libav.org/
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2494
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/14/4
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1479-1
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/78932
- https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/ticket/794