Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting ffmpeg package, versions [,2.5.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FFMPEG-2369205
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 Jan 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Jan 2015

CVE-2014-9602  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ffmpeg to version 2.5.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) libavcodec/xface.h in FFmpeg before 2.5.2 establishes certain digits and words array dimensions that do not satisfy a required mathematical relationship, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted X-Face image data.

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