Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ffmpeg  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-FFMPEG-600791
  • 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)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ffmpeg package and not the ffmpeg package as distributed by Debian.

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.