7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2014-8542

Published: 05/11/2014 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

libavcodec/utils.c in FFmpeg prior to 2.4.2 omits a certain codec ID during enforcement of alignment, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JV data.

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Vendor Advisories

Libav could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file ...
Debian Bug report logs - #773626 libav: multiple security issues Package: src:libav; Maintainer for src:libav is Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debianorg> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 04:33:01 UTC Severity: serious Tags: fixed-upst ...
Debian Bug report logs - #775593 libav: CVE-2014-{8544,8546,9316,9318,9319} Package: src:libav; Maintainer for src:libav is Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debianorg> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 04:33:01 UTC Severity: important Tag ...