Improper Input Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libav  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1210-LIBAV-639034
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed23 Nov 2013

Introduced: 23 Nov 2013

CVE-2013-0873  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.10.

NVD Description

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

The read_header function in libavcodec/shorten.c in FFmpeg before 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via an invalid channel count, related to "freeing invalid addresses."