Out-of-Bounds Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [,0.9.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.31% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2368895
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Aug 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Aug 2012

CVE-2012-0855  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 0.9.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Heap-based buffer overflow in the get_sot function in the J2K decoder (j2k.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg before 0.9.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors related to the curtileno variable.

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