Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [,0.10.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.6% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2368923
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Sept 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Sep 2012

CVE-2012-2793  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 0.10.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE). Unspecified vulnerability in the lag_decode_zero_run_line function in libavcodec/lagarith.c in FFmpeg before 0.11, and Libav 0.7.x before 0.7.7 and 0.8.x before 0.8.4, has unknown impact and attack vectors related to "too many zeros."

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