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CVE-2012-0858

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
20/08/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

The Shorten codec (shorten.c) in libavcodec in FFmpeg 0.7.x before 0.7.12 and 0.8.x before 0.8.11, and in Libav 0.5.x before 0.5.9, 0.6.x before 0.6.6, 0.7.x before 0.7.5, and 0.8.x before 0.8.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Shorten file, related to an "invalid free".

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
6.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.7.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.8.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.8.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.8.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ffmpeg:ffmpeg:0.8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:libav:libav:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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