6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2012-0858

Published: 20/08/2012 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 605
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The Shorten codec (shorten.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.7.x prior to 0.7.12 and 0.8.x prior to 0.8.11, and in Libav 0.5.x prior to 0.5.9, 0.6.x prior to 0.6.6, 0.7.x prior to 0.7.5, and 0.8.x prior to 0.8.1, allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Shorten file, related to an "invalid free".

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ffmpeg ffmpeg 0.7.7

ffmpeg ffmpeg 0.7.1

ffmpeg ffmpeg 0.7.6

ffmpeg ffmpeg 0.7.8

ffmpeg ffmpeg 0.7.9

ffmpeg ffmpeg 0.7.11

ffmpeg ffmpeg 0.7.2

ffmpeg ffmpeg 0.8.6

ffmpeg ffmpeg 0.8.5

ffmpeg ffmpeg 0.8.10

ffmpeg ffmpeg 0.8.7

ffmpeg ffmpeg 0.8.8

libav libav 0.5.6

libav libav 0.5.7

libav libav 0.5.3

libav libav 0.5

libav libav 0.5.2

libav libav 0.5.5

libav libav 0.5.4

libav libav 0.5.1

libav libav 0.6.5

libav libav 0.6.2

libav libav 0.6.4

libav libav 0.6.3

libav libav 0.6.1

libav libav 0.6

libav libav 0.7

libav libav 0.7.4

libav libav 0.7.1

libav libav 0.7.2

libav libav 0.7.3

libav libav 0.8

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #688849 ffmpeg/squeeze/stable: multiple CVEs that need further investigation Package: src:ffmpeg; Maintainer for src:ffmpeg is Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multimedia@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debianorg> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 08:27:01 UTC Severity: g ...
Libav could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file ...
FFmpeg could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file ...
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in FFmpeg, a multimedia player, server and encoder Multiple input validations in the decoders/demuxers for Shorten, Chinese AVS video, VP5, VP6, AVI, AVS and MPEG-1/2 files could lead to the execution of arbitrary code Most of these issues were discovered by Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind For th ...