Out-of-Bounds Affecting libav package, versions <6:11-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.17% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBAV-404968
  • published3 Nov 2014
  • disclosed3 Nov 2014

Introduced: 3 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-5271  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 libav to version 6:11-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libav package and not the libav package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the encode_slice function in libavcodec/proresenc_kostya.c in FFMpeg before 1.1.14, 1.2.x before 1.2.8, 2.x before 2.2.7, and 2.3.x before 2.3.3 and Libav before 10.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

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