Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [,2.4.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2369031
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Nov 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Nov 2014

CVE-2014-8549  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 2.4.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) libavcodec/on2avc.c in FFmpeg before 2.4.2 does not constrain the number of channels to at most 2, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted On2 data.

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