PT-2014-8604 · FFmpeg · Ffmpeg

Published 2014-11-05 · Updated 2019-03-05 · CVE-2014-8542

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FFmpeg versions prior to 2.4.2

Description The issue is related to the libavcodec/utils.c file in FFmpeg, where a certain codec ID is not properly enforced during alignment, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) or possibly have other unspecified impacts via crafted JV data.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.4.2, update to version 2.4.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-8542

DLA-1654-1

MGASA-2014-0464

MGASA-2014-0491

USN-2534-1

Affected Products

Ffmpeg

References · 36

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0491 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8542 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8542 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8542 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7865 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/libav · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-01551 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DLA-1654-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ffmpeg.org/security.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0491.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-8542 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8542 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14169 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8542 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2534-1 · Vendor Advisory