Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libav (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1504-LIBAV-629303
- published5 Nov 2014
- disclosed5 Nov 2014
Introduced: 5 Nov 2014
CVE-2014-8547 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libav package and not the libav package as distributed by Ubuntu.
libavcodec/gifdec.c in FFmpeg before 2.4.2 does not properly compute image heights, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted GIF data.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-8547
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8547
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commit;h=8f1457864be8fb9653643519dea1c6492f1dde57
- http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2534-1
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8f1457864be8fb9653643519dea1c6492f1dde57