CVE-2012-0853

high

Description

The decodeTonalComponents function in the Actrac3 codec (atrac3.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 (infinite loop and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large component count in an Atrac 3 file.

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1479-1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/14/4

http://secunia.com/advisories/49089

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=c509f4f74713b035a06f79cb4d00e708f5226bc5

http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=9af6abdc17deb95c9b1f1d9242ba49b8b5e0b016

http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c509f4f74713b035a06f79cb4d00e708f5226bc5

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-08-20

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High