Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [,0.11.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.28% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2369150
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Dec 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Dec 2013

CVE-2013-4358  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 0.11.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) libavcodec/h264.c in FFmpeg before 0.11.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to alternating bit depths in H.264 data.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1