Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mplayer  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-MPLAYER-629403
  • published5 Nov 2014
  • disclosed5 Nov 2014

Introduced: 5 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-8542  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

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

libavcodec/utils.c in FFmpeg before 2.4.2 omits a certain codec ID during enforcement of alignment, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JV data.