Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libav-extra  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-LIBAVEXTRA-648161
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed20 Aug 2012

Introduced: 20 Aug 2012

CVE-2012-0852  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libav-extra package and not the libav-extra package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The adpcm_decode_frame function in adpcm.c in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.9.1 and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.6, and 0.8.x before 0.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an ADPCM file with the number of channels not equal to two.