CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-8542
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-11-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
libavcodec/utils.c in FFmpeg before 2.4.2 omits a certain codec ID during enforcement of alignment, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JV data.
Affected configurations
• ffmpeg ffmpeg (<= 2.4.1)
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=105654e376a736d243aef4a1d121abebce912e6b git.videolan.org
- http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2534-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00005.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=105654e376a736d243aef4a1d121abebce912e6b git.videolan.org
- http://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2534-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00005.html Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-06 Third Party Advisory