CVE-2012-0858

2012-02-1400:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS2

6.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.024

Percentile

90.1%

JSON

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”.

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	as of 2012-05-22, no equivalent fix in ffmpeg 0.5.x

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu10.04noarchffmpeg< 4:0.5.9-0ubuntu0.10.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu11.04noarchlibav< 4:0.6.6-0ubuntu0.11.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu11.10noarchlibav< 4:0.7.6-0ubuntu0.11.10.1UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	10.04	noarch	ffmpeg	< 4:0.5.9-0ubuntu0.10.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	11.04	noarch	libav	< 4:0.6.6-0ubuntu0.11.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	11.10	noarch	libav	< 4:0.7.6-0ubuntu0.11.10.1	UNKNOWN