Out-of-Bounds Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [,1.1.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2368956
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Nov 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-5272  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 1.1.14 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds libavcodec/iff.c in FFMpeg before 1.1.14, 1.2.x before 1.2.8, 2.2.x before 2.2.7, and 2.3.x before 2.3.2 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a crafted iff image, which triggers an out-of-bounds array access, related to the rgb8 and rgbn formats.

CVSS Scores

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