PT-2012-2903 · FFmpeg · Ffmpeg

Kurt Seifried · Published 2012-08-20 · Updated 2012-08-21 · CVE-2012-0847

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FFmpeg versions prior to 0.9.1

Description The issue is a heap-based buffer overflow in the avfilter filter samples function, located in libavfilter/avfilter.c, which can be triggered by remote attackers using a crafted media file, leading to a denial of service (application crash).

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.9.1, update to version 0.9.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-0847

Affected Products

Ffmpeg

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0847 · Security Note
• http://ffmpeg.org/security.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/01/11 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/14/4 · Note
• http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ae21776207e8a2bbe268e7c9e203f7599dd87ddb · Note