CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8661
8.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
The h264_slice_header_init function in libavcodec/h264_slice.c in FFmpeg before 2.8.3 does not validate the relationship between the number of threads and the number of slices, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted H.264 data.
Affected configurations
• ffmpeg ffmpeg (<= 2.8.2)
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=4ea4d2f438c9a7eba37980c9a87be4b34943e4d5 git.videolan.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00004.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034539 www.securitytracker.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00009.html lists.debian.org
- http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ea4d2f438c9a7eba37980c9a87be4b34943e4d5 git.videolan.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00004.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034539 www.securitytracker.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00009.html lists.debian.org