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HistorySep 06, 2015 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2015-6821

2015-09-0600:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
7

7.5 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

74.9%

The ff_mpv_common_init function in libavcodec/mpegvideo.c in FFmpeg before
2.7.2 does not properly maintain the encoding context, which allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer access) or possibly
have unspecified other impact via crafted MPEG data.

Notes

Author Note
mdeslaur as of 2016-03-11, no equivalent fix in libav code is different in precise, probably ok
ebarretto as of 2018-09-27, no equivalent fix in libav

7.5 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

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

0.004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

74.9%