Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting ffmpeg package, versions >=0.0.0
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- published2 Mar 2025
- disclosed2 Mar 2025
- credit0x20z
Introduced: 2 Mar 2025
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How to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
FFmpeg is a FFmpeg static library ruby binding that is compiled for iOS and CocoaPods.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime through the manipulation of the num_parameters argument of audio_element_oub(). An attacker can cause a denial of service by triggering a memory leak.
PoC
git clone https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg.git
cd FFmpeg
./configure --cc=clang --cxx=clang++ --toolchain=clang-asan --extra-cflags="-I$HOME/ffmpeg_build/include -O0 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -g" --extra-cxxflags="-O0 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -g" --extra-ldflags="-L$HOME/ffmpeg_build/include -fsanitize=address -fsanitize=undefined -lubsan" --disable-optimizations --disable-stripping --enable-cross-compile
make -j30
./ffmpeg -y -i poc tmp.mp4