CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-6823
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-09-06
- 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-17
Description
The allocate_buffers function in libavcodec/alac.c in FFmpeg before 2.7.2 does not initialize certain context data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) data.
Affected configurations
• ffmpeg ffmpeg (<= 2.7.1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://ffmpeg.org/security.html ffmpeg.org
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f7068bf277a37479aecde2832208d820682b35e6 git.videolan.org
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033483 www.securitytracker.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00010.html lists.debian.org
- http://ffmpeg.org/security.html ffmpeg.org
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f7068bf277a37479aecde2832208d820682b35e6 git.videolan.org
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033483 www.securitytracker.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00010.html lists.debian.org