6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2012-0947

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

Heap-based buffer overflow in the vqa_decode_chunk function in the VQA codec (vqavideo.c) in libavcodec in Libav 0.5.x prior to 0.5.9, 0.6.x prior to 0.6.6, 0.7.x prior to 0.7.6, and 0.8.x prior to 0.8.2 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted VQA media file in which the image size is not a multiple of the block size.

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libav libav 0.6.5

libav libav 0.5.6

libav libav 0.7

libav libav 0.5.7

libav libav 0.8

libav libav 0.5.3

libav libav 0.6.2

libav libav 0.5

libav libav 0.7.4

libav libav 0.7.1

libav libav 0.8.1

libav libav 0.5.2

libav libav 0.5.5

libav libav 0.6.4

libav libav 0.6.3

libav libav 0.7.2

libav libav 0.5.4

libav libav 0.7.5

libav libav 0.7.3

libav libav 0.6.1

libav libav 0.6

libav libav 0.5.1

Vendor Advisories

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 Westwood Studios VQA, Apple MJPEG-B, Theora, Matroska, Vorbis, Sony ATRAC3, DV, NSV, files could lead to the execution of arbitrary code These issues were discovered by Aki Helin, Mateusz Jurczyk ...